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Oral Testimony of Luigi Zingales before the Congressional Oversight Panel
No full textOral Testimony of Luigi Zingales on Overall Impact of TARP on Financial Stability Before the Congressional Oversight Pane
Yes We Can, Secretary Geithner
No full textLuigi Zingales makes suggestions to Secretary Geithner on how to resolve the financial crisis.
Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints
No full textKaplan and Zingales [1997] provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence that investment-cash flow sensitivities are not good indicators of financing constraints. Fazzari, Hubbard and Petersen [1999] criticize those findings. In this note, we explain how the Fazzari et al. [1999] criticisms are either very supportive of the claims in Kaplan and Zingales [1997] or incorrect. We conclude with a discussion of unanswered questions.
Social Capital as Good Culture
No full textTo explain the extremely long-term persistence (more than 500 years) of positive historical experiences of cooperation (Putnam 1993), we model the intergenerational transmission of priors about the trustworthiness of others. We show that this transmission tends to be biased toward excessively conservative priors. As a result, societies can be trapped in a low-trust equilibrium. In this context, a temporary shock to the return to trusting can have a permanent effect on the level of trust. We validate the model by testing its predictions on the World Values Survey data and the German Socio Economic Panel. We also present some anecdotal evidence that differences in priors across regions are reflected in the spirit of the novels that originate from those regions.
Bankruptcy is Best to Save GM
No full textA Chapter 11 bankruptcy gives General Motors the only chance to recover, according to Joshua Rauh and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago.
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
No full textWhat external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors. Only 6% of the frauds are revealed by the SEC and 14% by the auditors. More important monitors are media (14%), industry regulators (16%), and employees (19%). Before SOX, only 35% of the cases were discovered by actors with an explicit mandate. After SOX, the performance of mandated actors improved, but still account for only slightly more than 50% of the cases. We find that monetary incentives for detection in frauds against the government influence detection without increasing frivolous suits, suggesting gains from extending such incentives to corporate fraud more generally.
A new capital regulation for large financial institutions
No full textApresentação do palestrante Luigi Zingales - University of Chicago no contexto do evento "Advances in Macroeconomics". Mais informações em: http://eventosepge.fgv.br/pt/evento/105/epge-promove-encontro-internacional-para-debater-os-avancos-na-macroeconomi
Plan B
No full textAs Paulson's and the world's confidence in the original rescue plan has waned, Luigi Zingales, a finance professor from the University of Chicago, who early on opposed the Paulson plan, presents Plan B. Plan B is an innovative approach for dealing directly with the foreclosure crises which avoids the costs and moral hazard problems of other proposals, together with a prepackaged bankruptcy/recapitalization proposal inspired by Lucian Bebchuk.
Finance and Development: is Schumpeter’s Analysis still relevant?
No full textIn recent years numerous studies have been published highlighting the role of financial structures in the development process of contemporary economies.1 These works represent a break with a widely-held theoretical view holding that income, wealth and economic growth are independent of the monetary and financial variables, and which thus considers money and the financial structure as neutral variables.2 In these recent studies there is always a reference to the pioneering work of Schumpeter; in many cases it is just a superficial mention, in other ones and in particular in the writings of Rajan and Zingales (2003a, 2003b, 2003c), important elements of Schumpeter’s theoretical framework are used. Hence, these works afford us an interesting opportunity to re-evaluate the importance of Schumpeter’s contribution.3 The thesis put forward in this paper is that while they do indeed highlight important elements of Schumpeter’s theory, Rajan and Zingales do not take the implications thereof into account and, furthermore, they neglect certain fundamental aspects of the Schumpeterian analysis that are closely connected with the parts that they consider. This renders their work incomplete, and prevents their analysis from achieving the coherence of Schumpeter’s theory. This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, the most important points of the analysis of Rajan and Zingales are described; in the second part, the elements of Schumpeter’s theory that they overlook are pointed out, and it is shown that by using the Schumpeterian theoretical framework it is possible to analyse the relation between financial structure and economic system growth in a more coherent and in-depth way than the one used by Rajan and Zingales.
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