Word: shleifer
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...federal jury trying part of the case against star Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 is expected to deliver a verdict this morning after considering heated closing arguments in court yesterday...
Harvard and Shleifer have been the subject of investigation and prosecution on-and-off for seven years, ever since a federal agency discovered allegedly illegal investments Shleifer and a close Harvard associate made in the Russian economy...
...investments were made while Shleifer, who is the Jones professor of economics at Harvard, was advising the Russian government on market reform in the early 1990s...
Today, the jury will determine whether Shleifer was technically “assigned to” Russia as defined by Harvard’s two contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which funded the market reform program through the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...defense has indicated they will counter that because Shleifer was based in Cambridge while serving as adviser the project, he was not “assigned to” Russia. Rolling out their own former HIID director, lawyers for Shleifer and Harvard will call Dwight H. Perkins, the Burbank professor of political economy, to testify that USAID’s conflict-of-interest provision did not apply to Shleifer and others working on the project in Cambridge...