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Does Voluntary Financial Disclosure Matter? The Case of Fairness Opinions in Mergers and Acquisitions 自愿财务披露重要吗？并购中的公平意见案例
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/723790
Adam B. Badawi, Matthew D. Cain, Steven Davidoff Solomon
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The Lion’s Share: Evidence from Federal Contracts on the Value of Political Connections 狮子份额：从联邦合同看政治关系的价值
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/724288
Şenay Ağca, Deniz Igan
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Dynamic Decision-Making under Rolling Admissions: Evidence from US Law School Applications 滚动录取下的动态决策：来自美国法学院申请的证据
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/724499
Yao Luo, Y. Wang
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Partisan Gerrymandering and Turnout 党派选区划分与投票率
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/725767
Daniel Jones, Neil Silveus, Carly Urban
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Loans to Chapter 11 Firms: Contract Design, Repayment Risk, and Pricing 向破产保护企业提供贷款：合同设计、还款风险和定价
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1086/724421
B. Eckbo, D. College, Kai Li, David Smith, Jan Starmans, Anjan Thakor, Karin S. Thorburn, Shyam Venkatesan, Jingjing Zhang, Anthony Georgiades, Guangli Lu, Mitchell Schinbein, Chelsea Yang, Yan Yang, Shu Zhang, Shimei Zhou
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Declining Unionization and the Despair of the Working Class 工会组织的衰落和工人阶级的绝望
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1086/724221
K. Chen, S. Islam
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Rule Breaking, Honesty, and Migration 打破规则，诚实和迁移
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1086/723112
M. Anelli, Tommaso Colussi, A. Ichino
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Does Strengthening the Property Rights of Employee-Inventors Spur Innovation? Empirical Evidence on Freedom-to-Create Laws Passed by US States 强化员工发明人产权激励创新吗?美国各州通过的自由创造法的经验证据
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1086/725533
Shashwat Alok, K. Subramanian
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Front Matter 前页
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1086/727555
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Firearms and Lynching 枪支和私刑
The Journal of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1086/722595
M. Makowsky, Patrick L. Warren
{"title":"Firearms and Lynching","authors":"M. Makowsky, Patrick L. Warren","doi":"10.1086/722595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722595","url":null,"abstract":"We assess firearms as a means of Black residents’ self-defense in the Jim Crow South. We infer access to firearms by race and place by measuring the fraction of suicides committed with a firearm. Corroborating anecdotal accounts and historical claims, state bans on pistols and increases in White law enforcement personnel served as mechanisms to disarm the Black community, while having no comparable effect on White residents’ firearm access. The interaction of these mechanisms with changing national market prices for firearms provides a credible identification strategy for Black residents’ firearm access. Rates of Black residents’ lynching decreased with their greater access to firearms. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. (Wells 1970, p. 62) I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit. (Wells 1970, p. 62)","PeriodicalId":22657,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Law and Economics","volume":"66 1","pages":"259 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90719568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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