Regulation and Distrust

Philippe Aghion, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Andrei Shleifer

NBER Working Paper No. 14648
Issued in January 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors thank for their very useful comments Alberto Alesina, Gary Becker, Bruce Carlin, Nicholas Coleman, William Easterly, Lawrence Katz, Joshua Schwartzstein, Jesse Shapiro, Glen Weyl, and Luigi Zingales. We have also benefited from many helpful comments from seminar participants at the Chicago Application workshop, the Harvard Macro and Labor Seminars, and the NBER Political Economy workshop. Andrei Shleifer is grateful to the Kauffman Foundation for support of this research. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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