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- 2015
- Working Paper
Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: 'When the States and the Kingdom Became United'
By: Claudia Steinwender
Steinwender, Claudia. "Information Frictions and the Law of One Price: 'When the States and the Kingdom Became United'." Working Paper, May 2015. (2014 WTO Essay Award for Young Economists, Best Paper Award at RIEF XIIIth Doctoral Meeting,Klaus-Liebscher-Award 2014, FIW Award 2015.)
- 03 Jun 2018
- HBS Conference
New Perspectives on U.S. Regulatory History: Past and Present of Public Utilities and Antitrust Law
- 11 May 2021
- News
Law Firms Are Building A.I. Expertise as Regulation Looms
- 2001
- Working Paper
The Law of One Price Over 700 Years
By: K. A. Froot, M. Kim and K. Rogoff
- March 2008
- Article
Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio
Does a legal tradition adopted in the distant past constrain a country's ability to provide the protection that investors need for financial markets to develop? This paper contributes to the literature that studies the connection between law and finance by looking at... View Details
Musacchio, Aldo. "Can Civil Law Countries Get Good Institutions? Lessons from the History of Creditor Rights and Bond Markets in Brazil." Journal of Economic History 68, no. 1 (March 2008): 80–108. (***Winner of the Arthur H. Cole Prize for best paper in the Journal of Economic History, 2007-2008***.)
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018
U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- News
Cook's Job Is to Manage Tax Law for Apple
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
I am a Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Recent... View Details
- 2014
- Article
Why Was Boston Strong?: Law Enforcement Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing
By: Dutch Leonard, Christine M. Cole and Arnold M. Howitt
On April 15, 2013, at 2:49 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Three people died, and more than 260 others needed hospital care, many having lost limbs or suffered horrific wounds. Those explosions began about... View Details
Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Management; Crisis Management; Law Enforcement
Leonard, Dutch, Christine M. Cole, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Why Was Boston Strong? Law Enforcement Lessons from the Boston Marathon Bombing." Gazette (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) 76, no. 4 (2014): 14–16.
- August 2012
- Supplement
William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)
By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
- Web
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology
GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws In the past few years, many countries and states have enacted laws to protect individuals' privacy. These laws... View Details
- March 2003
- Article
When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry
By: Stephen Haber, Noel Maurer and Armando Razo
Haber, Stephen, Noel Maurer, and Armando Razo. "When the Law Does Not Matter: The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Oil Industry." Journal of Economic History 63, no. 1 (March 2003): 1–31.
- Article
Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners
By: Peter DiScioli, Rachel Karpoff and Julian De Freitas
People sometimes disagree about who owns which objects, and these ownership dilemmas can
lead to costly disputes. We investigate the cognitive mechanisms underlying people’s judgments
about finder versus landowner cases, in which a person finds an object on someone... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Dilemma; Finders; Psychology And Law; Ownership; Property; Law; Social Psychology
DiScioli, Peter, Rachel Karpoff, and Julian De Freitas. "Ownership Dilemmas: The Case of Finders Versus Landowners." Cognitive Science 41, no. S3 (2017): 502–522.
- 5 Oct 2018
- Other Presentation
Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Background Note
Note on Trade Secrets and Covenants not to Compete: Comparison of Law in the United States and the European Union
By: Robert C. Pozen and Megan Barbero
This note details the use and treatment of Covenants not to Compete in the United States, United Kingdom and France to compete or trade secrets versus patents as alternative ways to protect a business' intellectual property. View Details
Pozen, Robert C., and Megan Barbero. "Note on Trade Secrets and Covenants not to Compete: Comparison of Law in the United States and the European Union." Harvard Business School Background Note 309-024, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- January 2018
- Background Note
Shareholder Value Maximization, Fiduciary Duties, and the Business Judgement Rule: What Does the Law Say?
By: Rebecca Henderson and Tony L He
Henderson, Rebecca, and Tony L He. "Shareholder Value Maximization, Fiduciary Duties, and the Business Judgement Rule: What Does the Law Say?" Harvard Business School Background Note 318-097, January 2018.
- Blog Post
How U.S. Laws Protecting America's Best Ideas Are Killing Innovation
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "How U.S. Laws Protecting America's Best Ideas Are Killing Innovation." Fortune.com, Postcards Blog (January 22, 2015). http://fortune.com/2015/01/22/how-u-s-laws-protecting-americas-best-ideas-are-killing-innovation/.