Rafael La Porta (born c. 1962) is the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics at Brown University. La Porta received his A.B. in economics at

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and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics at

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. La Porta served as a professor of economics at Harvard and the

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before accepting a position at Brown. His research is primarily in corporate governance and investor protections across the world. He is the coauthor of the influential article
Law and Finance
" which appeared in the ''Journal of Political Economy'' in December 1998.

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*http://faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/rafael-laporta/ *https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/05/corporation * * Living people 1960s births 21st-century American economists Tuck School of Business faculty Harvard University alumni Brown University faculty Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina alumni {{US-economist-stub