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Call for Proposals: 10th Anniversary of the Global Financial Crisis

The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) and the Stigler Center are organizing a conference on the causes, as well as the key players and...

The Stigler Center’s Mediapart Case Study Now Available in French

The Stigler Center's case study focuses on the success of the French online news website and explores the economics of media companies in the face of...

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 Financialization of the U.S. Economy Has Produced Mechanisms That Lead Toward Concentration"

In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Gerald Berk from the University of Oregon discusses the political implications of concentration.  Does...

"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...

Watch: “The Reason We Have Google and Facebook Today Is Because of Antitrust Enforcement Against Microsoft”

In an interview with the Chicago Booth Review, Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales spoke about the importance of competition.  “Competition is the essence of what makes...

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...

“The Increase in Common Ownership Corresponds to the Concentration Increase That Several Large Mergers Would Create”

In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Martin Schmalz from the University of Michigan talks about the effects of common ownership...

“There Is Unambiguous Evidence That Concentration Is on the Rise and Widespread Over Most Industries”

In this installment of ProMarket’s interview series on concentration in America, Cornell University professor Roni Michaely shares data on rising concentration in the U.S. economy. Does America have...

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