Steven Kaplan
Steven Neil Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He conducts research on issues in private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. He has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the U.S. House Financial Services Committee about his research. Kaplan is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics. Kaplan teaches advanced MBA and executive courses in entrepreneurial finance and private equity, corporate finance, corporate governance, and wealth management. BusinessWeek named him one of the top 12 business school teachers in the country. Professor Kaplan has been a member of the Chicago Booth faculty since 1988 and co-founded the entrepreneurship program at Booth.
Corporate Governance
The SEC Proposal on Proxy Advisory Firms Will Provide Greater Transparency and Accountability
Proxy advisory firms lack transparency and their recommendations are not always in shareholders' interests. However, despite their poor performance, the two biggest firms' market...
Rent seeking
(God Knows) Wall Street Isn’t Perfect, But It Has Helped Make the World A Lot Better Off
If the criticisms against Wall Street had been accurate, the U.S. corporate sector today would be ailing. Instead, corporate profits are at historical highs...
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Antitrust and Competition
The United States: An Exceptional Case? A Webinar With Stephen Haber, Richard R. John, and Luigi Zingales
Many see the US as a land where free markets and antitrust enforcement have historically kept monopolies under control. But is that...
COMMENTARIES
Bethany McLean’s Fourth of July Weekend Reading List: Jeff Bezos, Homeschooling, and How to Make Capitalism Work for All
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Coronavirus
Lifting Lockdown Measures Won’t Bring Back Lost Jobs, New Study Suggests
A new paper examines data on local outbreaks in South Korea and finds that even in the absence of lockdowns, an increase...
Bailout
What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...
News
A New Stigler Center Case Study Explores the Link Between Italy’s Morandi Bridge Disaster and Crony Capitalism
Two years ago, the Morandi bridge collapse claimed 43 lives. Based on financial statements, Italian government documents, and interviews with independent experts...
News
Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are...
Media
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Shale Oil, and the Fall of Chuck E. Cheese
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
