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Regulatory Capture

Big Four Audit Firms Enjoy a “Too Few to Fail” Regulatory Hall Pass

Francine McKenna
The failure of Enron and subsequent demise of Arthur Andersen led to significant changes for public reporting and auditing but not much change in...
Regulatory Capture

How Market Power Leads to Corporate Political Influence

Asher Schechter
Neoclassical economic theory assumes that firms have no power to influence the rules of the game. A new paper by Luigi Zingales argues: This is...
Regulatory Capture

Spoiled Meat Scandal Reveals the Influence of Business and Media on Brazil's Politics

Alana Rizzo
The recently-released secret taping of a conversation between Brazil’s president Michel Temer and one of the country's most prominent businessmen reveals the extent to which big business...
Regulatory Capture

What Drives Bank Bailouts? Study Shows That Political Interests Play a Major Role

Asher Schechter
New paper finds that political and personal interests have a major impact on politicians’ decisions regarding bank bailouts. In his memoir Stress Test (Crown, 2014), former Treasury...
Regulatory Capture

How Financial Regulations Can Create Barriers to Entry: The Case of Cumplo in Chile

ProMarket writers
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...
Regulatory Capture

Study: Politicians Vote Against the Will of Their Constituents 35 Percent of the Time

Asher Schechter
New Stigler Center working paper: “To the extent that legislators represent majority opinion, it happens largely because legislators share the opinions of their constituents,...
Regulatory Capture

Will PwC Throw the Red Card on its Swiss Firm Over FIFA?

Francine McKenna
PwC took over as auditor of the corruption-plagued global football body last year, with the intention of  reforming it. So how is it that...
Regulatory Capture

Is Direct Democracy Better Able to Withstand the Influence of Special Interests?

Asher Schechter
A new Stigler Center working paper looks into the effects of referendums and public initiatives on public policy and finds that direct democracy better...
Regulatory Capture

The Value of Access: How Closeness to the Obama White House Benefited Companies

Guy Rolnik
Between January 2009 and December 2015, White House officials met with corporate CEOs 2,286 times. A new study, to be presented at the upcoming Stigler Center...
Money in Politics

Stigler Center Event: Is Direct Democracy a Solution to Populism?

ProMarket writers
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...
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