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Articles of the author Luigi Zingales
The Greek tragedy, act II
CHICAGO: A Greek tragedy is typically composed of three acts. The first sets the scene. It is only with the second that the plot reaches its climax. For current-day Greece, the imposition of “voluntary” losses on the country's private creditors (...)

22 - 03 - 2012
The unexamined crisis
CHICAGO: Three years have now passed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which triggered the start of the most acute phase of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Is the financial world a safer place today? Within days after the 9/11 terrorist (...)

11 - 10 - 2011
The perverse politics of financial crisis
CHICAGO: In trying to understand the pattern and timing of government interventions during a financial crisis, we should probably conclude that, to paraphrase the French philosopher Blaise Pascal, politics have incentives that economics cannot (...)

02 - 08 - 2011
The derivatives market's helpful enemies
CHICAGO: The launch of two European antitrust investigations into the market for credit default swaps (CDS) might appear to be no more than a political vendetta against one of the alleged culprits behind the 2010 European sovereign-debt crisis. The (...)

25 - 05 - 2011
Strauss-Kahn's choice
CHICAGO: When Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, was appointed Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in 2007, many developing countries objected — not to him, but to the tradition that gave the IMF's top job to (...)

17 - 04 - 2011
The dark underbelly of finance
CHICAGO: If you thought that America's financial sector had gotten enough of bad publicity, think again. The insider-trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire hedge-fund manager, has now begun. It is likely to provide an especially lurid exposé (...)

24 - 03 - 2011
Europe's financial alchemy
CHICAGO: It is universally recognized that a key factor underlying the 2007-2008 financial crisis was the diffusion of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the infamous special-purpose vehicles that transformed lower-rated debt into highly rated (...)

26 - 12 - 2010
The bonus risk
CHICAGO: In its July session, the European parliament approved some of the strictest rules in the world on the bonuses paid to bankers. The aim is to curb risk-taking by financial institutions. The new rules require that no more than 30 percent (...)

22 - 09 - 2010
Credit default swaps on trial
CHICAGO: The lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission against Goldman Sachs for securities fraud, charging the bank with misrepresenting the way a collateralized debt obligations (CDO) had been formed, has revived public disgust at (...)

19 - 04 - 2010
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