Behavioral finance Law and economics Development economics
Alma mater
MIT Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Peter A. Diamond[1] Franklin M. Fisher[1]
Doctoral students
Sendhil Mullainathan Matthew Gentzkow Jesse Shapiro Emily Oster Ulrike Malmendier John Friedman
Influences
Lawrence Summers Milton Friedman[2]
Contributions
Legal origins theory Big push model
Awards
John Bates Clark Medal (1999)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Andrei Shleifer (/ˈʃlaɪfər/SHLY-fər; born February 20, 1961) is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1991. Shleifer was awarded the biennial John Bates Clark Medal in 1999 for his seminal works in three fields: corporate finance (corporate governance, law and finance), the economics of financial markets (deviations from efficient markets), and the economics of transition.
IDEAS/RePEc ranked him as the second top economist in the world in 2011,[3] and the top economist in 2024.[4] He is also listed as #1 on the list of "Most-Cited Scientists in Economics & Business".[5] On Google Scholar, as of 2024 he had over 400,000 citations.[6]
^ abShleifer, Andrei (1986). The business cycle and the stock market(PDF) (PhD). MIT. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
^Andrei Shleifer. "The Age of Milton Friedman". Retrieved 2013-10-19.
^"Economist Rankings at IDEAS". Ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
AndreiShleifer (/ˈʃlaɪfər/ SHLY-fər; born February 20, 1961) is a Russian-American economist and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, where...
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Randall, Oxford geophysicist Raymond Pierrehumbert, Harvard economists AndreiShleifer and Eric Maskin, and UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong. Other alumni...
was done jointly with professors Edward Glaeser, Oliver Hart, and AndreiShleifer. Though the first report was authored by Djankov, Klein, and McLiesh...
editors-in-chief are Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, AndreiShleifer, and Stefanie Stantcheva. It is the oldest professional journal of...
Zimmerman nor her husband admitted wrongdoing. Zimmerman is married to AndreiShleifer, a professor of economics at Harvard University. She is Jewish. As...
(Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1997). ISBN 978-0-8014-8396-7 Maxim Boycko, AndreiShleifer & Robert Vishny, Privatizing Russia (Cambridge, MA – London: MIT Press...
was Behavioral approaches to contract theory and corporate finance. AndreiShleifer served as Malmendier's adviser at Harvard. She worked as an assistant...
institutional investors. LSV was founded in 1994 by Josef Lakonishok, AndreiShleifer and Robert W. Vishny. The three of them were working in academia where...
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with Harvard University professors Edward Glaeser, Oliver Hart and AndreiShleifer. The latest research in this sub-field focuses on the difference between...
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tax financial-industry profits and remuneration. He cited a paper by AndreiShleifer and Robert Vishny released the previous week, which concludes that...
Commons Award from Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics honor society. AndreiShleifer and Emmanuel Saez are two of his doctoral supervisees who won the John...
Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance, AndreiShleifer, 2000, Oxford University Press. AndreiShleifer and Robert W. Vishny, 1997, 'The Limits of...
database is used to rank the more than 50,000 registered economists. AndreiShleifer is currently the highest-ranked economist, followed by Joseph Stiglitz...
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way for the criminal pursuit of money and power. Treisman, Daniel; Shleifer, Andrei (21 March 2004). "A Normal Country". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 25...
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Database. Brill. p. 73. ISBN 978-90-04-17519-8. J. Bradford De Long and AndreiShleifer (October 1993), "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before...
(6): 1105-1150. Djankov, Simeon, Caralee McLiesh, Tatiana Nenova, and AndreiShleifer. 2003. “Who Owns the Media?”, Journal of Law and Economics 46 (2):...
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