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Matilde Bombardini

Matilde Bombardini is an Associate Professor in the Business and Public Policy Group at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. She is also a Fellow in the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and Co-Editor of the Journal of International Economics. Her research covers various aspects of International Trade and Political Economy.
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Marianne Bertrand
A new paper examines the relationship between the rising concentration in institutional investors' ownership of publicly traded U.S. firms and portfolio companies' political giving....
Money in Politics

What Citizens United Did Not Predict and Why It’s Time To Reconsider

Matilde Bombardini
Citizens United v. FEC stands in the public eye as the U.S. Supreme Court case that flooded U.S. elections with “dark money” and SuperPACs....
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“Comments for Sale”: Charitable Donations Can Lead Non-profits to Support Corporate Regulatory Agendas

Marianne Bertrand
A new paper shows how financial ties between companies and non-profits can subvert rulemaking process and lead to regulations that favor the interests of...
Money in Politics

When Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Lobbying: How Firms Use Charitable Giving to Influence Politics

Matilde Bombardini
A new Stigler Center working paper examines a more roundabout way that companies can influence legislators: by donating money to charities in lawmakers’ districts....

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