Having earlier referenced the influence of academic research by Josef Lakonishok, it is worth noting that he (together with Andrei Shleifer and Robert Vishny) went on to set up LSV Asset Management, which currently manages $58 billion across its value...

Shleifer is in my opinion the most important economic thinker of his generation, and he happened to be part of a generation that had to wrestle with the collapse of communism and the transition to a market economy. He was an ideal person to tackle these...

Seven things I learned about the transition from communism: First, in all countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, economic activity shrunk at the beginning of transition, in some very sharply. In many countries, economic decline started...

Krugman recommends this 1988 paper (pdf) by Andrei Shleifer and Larry Summers on private-equity firms: They make one especially keen point: if it were really about adding efficiency, why do the same people lead takeovers in many industries, instead of...

23, 2012, 9:34 am Since I just gave Larry Summers a bit of a hard time over that distressing Dec. 2008 memo to Obama, this is probably a good time to note that way back when he and Andrei Shleifer wrote an essay on the economics of leveraged buyouts...