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Regulatory Capture

Does Direct Democracy Reduce Regulatory Capture?

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
Does direct democracy make regulatory capture harder for industry? Samantha Eyler-Driscoll looks at a new Stigler Center working paper that examines state-level referenda and...
Regulatory Capture

Why Are So Many Executives Running for Office These Days?

Viktar Fedaseyeu
New research documents a sharp increase in the number of corporate executives in elected federal office between 1980 and 2014. But why do they...
Money in Politics

Can Credit Tightening Spur Social Unrest? Evidence from 1930s China

Alberto Manconi
In 1933 the United States launched its Silver Purchase program, which raised silver prices worldwide, drained China’s silver stock, and caused credit to Chinese...
Regulatory Capture

How Politicians Intensify Financial Cycles: 300 Years of Pro-Cyclical Regulation

Jihad Dagher
Three hundred years of financial regulation offer a cautionary tale to today’s push against yesterday’s regulations. This column revisits the political economy of financial...
Regulatory Capture

Rethinking Stigler’s Theory of Regulation: Regulatory Capture or Deregulatory Capture?

Steven K. Vogel
Much government regulation does not fit the logic of Stigler’s theory of anti-competitive regulatory capture. In a new book, Steven Vogel of Berkeley argues...
Regulatory Capture

The Only Game in Town: Central Banking as False Hope

Paul Tucker
To accompany Paul Tucker’s mini-course at the Stigler Center this week, we offer here an extract of the former Bank of England Deputy Governor’s...
Money in Politics

Return of the State: Banking on Diplomacy

Phong T. H. Ngo
If, as California political legend Jesse M. Unruh once quipped, “money is the mother’s milk of politicians,” it’s reasonable to expect that countries might...
Regulatory Capture

Prize-Winning Innovations in Measuring Civic Capital and Its Effects

Prateek Raj
The European Economic Association has announced that this year’s Hicks Tinbergen medal will go to ProMarket editor and Stigler Center faculty director Luigi Zingales...
Regulatory Capture

What Glue Holds Communist Capitalism Together in China? Cronyism

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
With a few cronyist tweaks, China’s communist leaders made capitalism safe for Party rule. But will cronyism become China’s next booming export? The Chinese economy...
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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