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Rafael La Porta is the Robert J. Nancy D. Carney University Professor of Economics at Brown University. He teaches courses on behavioral finance, venture capital, and entrepreneurship. La Porta's academic journey includes serving as the Noble Foundation Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he worked from 2003 after receiving his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1994. His research focuses on investor protection and corporate governance, a field known as 'law and finance.' He is recognized as an expert in cross-country differences in laws and practices relating to investor protection, and how these differences affect economies, stock markets, and firms' financing practices.
Department: Department of Economics