Committee Jurisdiction, Congressional Behavior and Policy Outcomes

John M. de Figueiredo

NBER Working Paper No. 17171
Issued in June 2011

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I would like to thank David King, Romain Wacziarg, and seminar participants at Stanford, MIT and the Berkeley Franco-American Conference on the History, Economics and Law of Intellectual Property Protection for helpful comments. Daniel Braga and Karen Freeman provided excellent for research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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