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The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …

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Luigi Zingales May 31, 2013

We, the Corporations?

CHICAGO – You would think that 600,000 comments on a petition would be sufficient to bring an issue to the top of the US Securities and Exch…
Gavin Hayman May 28, 2013

Financial Secrets and Lies

LONDON – In early April, a major exposé of financial secrecy sent shock waves around the world. After devoting more than a year to examining…
Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng Apr. 22, 2013

Lending in the Dark

HONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible…
Mark Roe Apr. 18, 2013

Apple’s Cash-Flow Problem

CAMBRIDGE – I recently examined the problem of corporate short-termism from two nonstandard angles. One was that some short-termism is sensi…
Laura Tyson Mar. 29, 2013

Why Give Corporations a Tax Break?

BERKELEY – US President Barack Obama has called for additional revenue as part of a balanced plan to reduce future budget deficits. But he i…
Esther Dyson Mar. 27, 2013

Why Work at Work?

PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from h…
Raghuram Rajan Mar. 27, 2013

Love the Bank, Hate the Banker

NEW DELHI – Public discourse is rarely nuanced. The public’s attention span is short, and subtleties tend to confuse. Better to take a clear…
Randall Morck, Bernard Yeung Feb. 21, 2013

The Pope and the Party

ALBERTA – As the twentieth century neared, Pope Leo XIII, grieving for humanity’s choice between atheistic socialism and venal liberalism, c…
Simon Johnson Oct. 24, 2012

Too Big To Handle

WASHINGTON, DC – In the discussion of whether America’s largest financial institutions have become too big, a sea change in opinion is under…
Michael Spence, David Brady Aug. 15, 2012

Why Are Governments Paralyzed?

MILAN – It is no secret that the global economy is struggling. Europe is in the midst of a crisis whose root cause is a structurally flawed …

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