Banking
How Regulation Subsidizes Big Finance
If you want to understand how the US economy is producing big gains for those at the top and stagnation for everybody else, the...
Did US Banks Try to Manipulate the Dodd-Frank Debate by Delaying Mortgage Foreclosures?
Did banks delay foreclosures on delinquent mortgages in the districts of House Financial Services Committee members prior to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act?
The...
Eliot Spitzer: The Democratic Party Has Become the Party of the Status Quo
Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer talks about antitrust, digital platforms, economic concentration, and regulatory capture. Part 2 of 2.
In the first part of...
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...
Blockchains and Corporate Finance: “In a Blockchain Market, Shareholder Activists Might Play Much Less of a Role”
Will blockchain technology lead to less shareholder activism and higher executive compensation? Watch David Yermack’s full Stigler Center lecture on the potential implications of blockchain...
Wells Fargo and the Failure of Boards and Regulators
Two new reports concerning the Wells Fargo scandal suggest that the bank's senior management, its board of directors, and the regulators all knew about the bank's...
I Was a Whistleblower. The Fed Is Not Doing Enough to Fix Wall Street’s Culture of Fear
Deutsche Bank whistleblower Eric Ben-Artzi, who publicly rejected a multimillion dollar award from the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer, writes about the failure...
Could the Fed Have Rescued Lehman Brothers? Q&A with Laurence Ball
A new study argues that the Federal Reserve could have saved Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy, but chose not to, partly because of political pressures.
Eight-and-a-half years ago,...
Revolving Doors in the Private Sector: Quid Pro Quo or Efficient Market Mechanism?
A new paper by Elisabeth Kempf from the University of Chicago looks into the performance of credit analysts who left to work for investment...
Could Blockchain Technology Alter the Balance of Power Within the Financial System? Q&A with David Yermack
"Blockchain technology is threatening to remake the financial system from the top down in a way that threatens the existence of all the banks,...
