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Populist Plutocrats as a Political Phenomenon
How can a rich man successfully pose as a representative of the poor and the disenfranchised and become the leader of a populist movement?...
A Small Step for Theory, a Leap Forward in Corporate Governance
Moving from shareholder value maximization to shareholder welfare maximization may be a small step in theory, but it could trigger a leap forward in...
How Markets in Europe Opened Up as Guild Monopolies Declined in the Sixteenth Century
Markets don’t function well if they are ridden with frictions like lack of information or lack of trust. A new working paper finds that...
How Market Power Leads to Corporate Political Influence
Neoclassical economic theory assumes that firms have no power to influence the rules of the game. A new paper by Luigi Zingales argues: This is...
The Stigler Center Launches Second Year of Journalists in Residence Program
The 12-week program, which will take place in Chicago Booth’s Hyde Park Campus, offers a transformative learning experience for working journalists seeking to deepen their...
How Financial Regulations Can Create Barriers to Entry: The Case of Cumplo in Chile
A new Stigler Center case study chronicling the story of Chile’s first crowdfunding platform and its early regulatory challenges illustrates how financial regulations can be...
"The Connection Between Finance and Politics Has Been Under-Researched for Years"
Ahead of the Stigler Center's conference on the political economy of finance, we interviewed Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales about the motivation behind the first-of-its-kind...
Stigler Center Event: Is Direct Democracy a Solution to Populism?
Can direct democracy be used to fix the crisis of representative democracy? Join us for a series of three stand-alone, interrelated lunch seminars by...
Stigler Center Launches Case Study Series
On Thursday, the Stigler Center will launch the first in a series of business case studies that focus on the many ways special interest...
Conference: Is There a Concentration Problem in America?
On March 27-29, the Stigler Center will host a first-of-its-kind, three-day conference on the question of concentration in the U.S. economy that will bring...
