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305: Selfish Corporations

Emanuele Colonnelli and Niels Gormsen

304: Reversing the Resource Curse: Foreign Corruption Regulation and Economic Development

Hans B. Christensen, Mark Maffett and Thomas Rauter

303: Competition in Digital Markets: A Review of Expert Reports

Filippo Lancieri and Patricia Morita Sakowski

302: Exit vs. Voice

Eleonora Broccardo, Oliver D. Hart and Luigi Zingales

301: A Theory of Stock Exchange Competition and Innovation: Will the Market Fix the Market?

Eric B. Budish, Robin Lee and John J. Shim

300: Quantifying the High-Frequency Trading "Arms Race": A Simple New Methodology and Estimates

Matteo Aquilina, Eric B. Budish and Peter O'Neill

299: Civic Capital and Social Distancing during the Covid-19 Pandemic

John Barrios, Efraim Benmelech, Yael V. Hochberg, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales

298: Assessing the Payroll Protection Program: A Framework and Preliminary Results

John Barrios, Michael Minnis, William Minnis and Joost Sijthoff

297: Risk Perception Through the Lens of Politics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

John Barrios and Yael V. Hochberg

296: The Political Limits of Economics

Luigi Zingales

295: Importing Threat: The Electoral Logic of Economic Relief

Minju Kim and Robert Gulotty

294: Kill Zone

Sai Krishna Kamepalli, Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales

293: Corruption and Firms

Emanuele Colonnelli and Mounu Prem

292: Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem and Edoardo Teso

291: The Value of Political Geography: Evidence from the Redistricting of Firms

Joaquín Artés, Brian Kelleher Richter and Jeffrey F. Timmons

290: The Employment Effects of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage

Riccardo Marchingiglio and Mikhail Poyker

289: The Revolving Door and Regulatory Enforcement: Firm-Level Evidence on Tax Rates and IRS Audits

Benjamin C. K. Egerod

288: Mergers, Aggregate Productivity, and Markups

Peter Chen

287: Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Nicola Limodio

286: Disclosure Regulation, Corruption, and Investment: Evidence from Natural Resource Extraction

Thomas Rauter

285: The Politics of Blood Safety Regulation in China: The Blood Plasma Economy and the Making of China's Blood Safety Regulatory Regime

Dali L. Yang

284: Does Fiscal Monitoring Make Better Governments? Evidence from US Municipalities

Anya Nakhmurina

283: Depositors Disciplining Banks: The Impact of Scandals

Mikael Homanen

282: The Cost of Convenience: Ridesharing and Traffic Fatalities

John Barrios, Yael V. Hochberg and Hanyi Yi

281: What Went Wrong?: The Puerto Rican Debt Crisis, The "Treasury Put," And The Failure Of Market Discipline

Bob Chirinko, Ryan Chiu and Shaina Henderson

280: The "People's Bridge":Popular Sovereignty and the Charles River Bridge Case

Evelyn Atkinson

279: The Economic Limits of Bitcoin and the Blockchain

Eric B. Budish

278: Special Interest Influence under Direct versus Representative Democracy

John Matsusaka

277: 70 Years of US Corporate Profits

Simcha Barkai and Seth G. Benzell

276: Do Marginal Products Differ from User Costs? Micro-Level Evidence from Italian Firms

Simone Lenzu and Francesco Manaresi

275: The Impact of Restricting Labor Mobility on Corporate Investment and Entrepreneurship

Jessica Jeffers

274: Tax-Exempt Lobbying: Corporate Philanthropy as a Tool for Political Influence

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Raymond Fisman and Francesco Trebbi

273: What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage?

David Andrew Finer

272: Is Aggregate Market Power Increasing? Production Trends Using Financial Statements

James Traina

271: Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century

Matthew Smith, Danny Yagan, Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick

270: How Does Financial-Reporting Regulation Affect Market-Wide Resource Allocation?

Matthias Breuer

269: Diagnosing the Italian Disease

Bruno Pellegrino and Luigi Zingales

268: Is Pollution Value-Maximizing? The DuPont Case

Roy Shapira and Luigi Zingales

267: Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare Not Market Value

Oliver D. Hart and Luigi Zingales

266: Origins of Impersonal Markets in Commercial and Communication Revolutions of Europe

Prateek Raj

265: Towards a Political Theory of the Firm

Luigi Zingales

264: When Do Legislators Follow Constituent Opinion? Evidence from Matched Roll Call and Referendum Votes

John Matsusaka

263: Public Policy and the Initiative and Referendum: A Survey with Some New Evidence

John Matsusaka

262: Why Do Managers Fight Shareholder Proposals? Evidence from SEC No-Action Letter Decisions

John Matsusaka, Oguzhan Ozbas and Irene Yi

261: Demand for (Un)Biased News: The Role of Government Control in Online News Markets

Andrey Simonov and Justin Rao

260: When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru

259: Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry

Mara Faccio and Luigi Zingales

258: The Job Rating Game: The Effects of Revolving Doors on Analyst Incentives

Elisabeth Kempf

257: Declining Labor and Capital Shares

Simcha Barkai

256: The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

Mark L. Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru