Kaspar Zimmermann
Kaspar Zimmermann is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE. He works on questions in macro-finance, banking and economic history.
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How Unusual is the Recent Boom in Profits and Values of US Listed Corporations?
In the past decades, the US stock market and business profits have been growing much faster than the rest of the economy....
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Academic Capture
Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 

One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
News
A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in the political finance. Do you have...
Antitrust and Competition
How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook...
Antitrust and Competition
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and...
Corporate Governance
Managers Should Satisfy Only the Ethically Permissible Preferences of Shareholders
Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales have proposed a revision to the dominant model of the objective of the firm, most famously defended...
Economic History Series
Plagues Upon the Earth: How Wealth Intersects With Mortality
Kyle Harper’s new book, Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History, shows that the story of disease is...
Capitalisn't
What Accounts for the Gender Equality Among Pharmacists?
In her new book Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity, Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin traces how generations of women have...
