Research Assistance

Investor protection and corporate valuation 1 (2007)

Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny, Research Assistance, Malcolm Baker, ...

We present a model of the effects of legal protection of minority shareholders and of cash flow ownership by a controlling shareholder on the valuation of firms. We then test this model using a...

me to this issue, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for providing some of the data, Lulu Chen for (2007)

Research Assistance, Chris Hoofnagle, Charles Prescott, Chu Junhong, Yossi Spiegel, ...

Despite tremendous debate and policy interest, there has been relatively little research into the issue of how much individuals value their privacy. In this paper, I estimate the demand for privacy...