Paola Sapienza
Paola Sapienza is the Donald C. Clark/HSBC Chair in Consumer Finance Professor at the Kellogg School of Management. She also serves as a faculty research fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research's program on corporate finance and political economy, and has previously served as a faculty fellow in the former Zell Center for Risk Research, a research affiliate of the Center for Economic Policy Research. Sapienza's areas of expertise include banking and financial institutions, behavioral economics, behavioral finance, corporate finance, emerging markets and regulation of financial markets, private equity and venture capital. Sapienza has written articles on banking, social capital, trust and financial development. Professor Sapienza is also an independent board member of Assicurazioni Generali SpA since April 2010.
Bailout
Back to Work? The Political Preparation for “Phase 2” of the Pandemic Is a Matter of Trust
According to a special wave of the Booth/Kellogg Financial Trust Index, Americans have bought into social distancing rules. However, most of the respondents are...
Corporate Governance
Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index Shows Americans’ Trust in Financial Institutions Increasing After Rocky Decade
Financial trust increased from 22 percent in 2008 to 28 percent at the end of 2018, according to a survey marking the 10-year anniversary...
Money in Politics
A House Divided
On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration as president, the latest update of the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey finds that Americans are sharply divided on...
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
Antitrust and Competition
How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
Antitrust and Competition
Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
Antitrust and Competition
The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...
Antitrust and Competition
Google’s Anticompetitive Conduct and the Remedies to Prevent It
The Stigler Center, of which ProMarket is a part, recently hosted a panel discussion looking at the antitrust case against Google and...
Academic Capture
“Uber Has Higher Prices and Worse Service Than the Taxi Industry Had Ten Years Ago”
Following the Uber Files leaks, transportation expert Hubert Horan explains why Uber is “hopelessly uneconomic” and how its engagement with policymakers and...
Antitrust and Competition
The FTC Should Quickly Issue New Section 5 Enforcement Guidelines
Unfair methods of competition are prohibited by Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act. The FTC has withdrawn the existing...
