Rafael La Porta

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 Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina in Argentina and his A.M. and Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. La Porta served as a professor of economics at Harvard and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College 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 "[http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/fichiers/enseig/ecoineg/articl/LaPortaetal1998.pdf Law and Finance]," which appeared in the ''Journal of Political Economy'' in December 1998. Provided by Wikipedia