Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and serves on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a fellow of the European Governance Institute. He is the author of A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity.
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Luigi Zingales
Commentaries by Luigi Zingales
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Mario Draghi’s Opiate of the Markets
CHICAGO – From the standpoint of European stability, the Italian elections could not have delivered a worse outcome. Italy’s parliament is d…
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Financial Stars Behind Bars?
CHICAGO – Hardly a day goes by without a settlement between a bank and a US government agency or regulator. The latest one is between Bank o…
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Pulling the OMT Trigger
CHICAGO – Europe has been experiencing a period of calm after the storm since European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s “whatever it ta…
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Democracy’s Burning Ships
CHICAGO – Since the late 1970’s, the academic diffusion of game theory has led macroeconomists to emphasize the importance of “commitment,” …
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Orphan Ideas
CHICAGO – Since the United States Supreme Court’s “Citizens United” decision, which prohibited the government from restricting independent p…
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No Shareholders’ Spring
CHICAGO – The ongoing global economic crisis is not only causing incumbent governments to lose elections; it is also shaking corporate board…
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The Greek Tragedy, Act II
CHICAGO – A Greek tragedy is typically composed of three acts. The first sets the scene. It is only with the second that the plot reaches it…
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Central Bankers in the Line of Fire
CHICAGO – Central bankers should not only be above suspicion of wrongdoing, but also appear to be above it. So the decision in January by Ph…
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Elected Dirty Dealers
CHICAGO – Imagine that you are an elected member of the United States House of Representatives in the middle of the debate on the health-car…
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The Unexamined Crisis
CHICAGO – Three years have now passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007-2…
Mario Draghi’s Opiate of the Markets
Carol Maczinsky: Time to end the historical experiment of the Italian nation state and restore democracy on other levels.