Chronological List of Editorials

2011

• "The Unexamined Crisis," Il sole 24 ore, September 22, 2011.
• "A "Cencelli" handbook of a bank and of the Country," Il sole 24 ore, September 10, 2011.
• "How a Debt Exchange Could Ease Europe’s Crisis," Bloomberg: Business Class, September 8, 2011.
• "Tax Trio Would End Euro Arson," with Roberto Perotti, Bloomberg: Business Class, July 28, 2011.
• "Make Money Market Funds Go to Market," Bloomberg: Business Class, May 27, 2011.

2010

• "Credit Default Swaps on Trial," Project Syndicate, April 19, 2010.
• "Curbing Risk on Wall Street," with Oliver Hart, National Affairs, Spring 2010.
• "The Menace of Strategic Default," City Journal, Spring 2010.
• "Is Strategic Default a Menace?"  City Journal Forum.  A response to "The Menace of Strategic Default — and a response to the response.
• "How to Make a Bank Raise Equity," with Oliver Hart, Financial Times, February 7, 2010.
• AUDIO: Bloomberg Radio: Commentary "How to Make a Bank Raise Equity," Part 1 & Part 2, February 9, 2010.

 

2009

• "A Tax on Short-term Debt Would Stabilize the System," Financial Times, December 16, 2009.
• "A Loan Modification Approach to the Housing Crisis," with Eric A. Posner, December 4, 2009.
• "How to Avoid a New Financial Crisis," with Oliver Hart, November 2009.
• "An Economic Agenda for the GOP," City Journal, Autumn 2009, Vol. 19 No. 4.
• "Lehman and the Financial Crisis," with John Cochrane, The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2009.
• "Capitalism After the Crisis," National Affairs, Fall 2009.
• "Pay Regulation Is Not the Best Way to Address Moral Hazard," Financial Times, August 17, 2009.
• "Wall Street 2015," commentary in Forbes.com, July 13, 2009.
• Response to "Lin roundtable: Leave room for growth," Economist.com, July 11, 2009.
• "Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Defaults on Mortgages," with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Guiso, June 2009.
• "Dilute or Die," The Economist, May 14, 2009.
• "Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks," with R. Glenn Hubbard and Hal Scott, The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2009.
• "Stop Subsidizing the Street," with Paola Sapienza, City Journal, April 29, 2009.
• "A New Regulatory Framework," Forbes, March 31, 2009.
• "To Regulate Finance, Try the Market," with Oliver Hart, Foreign Policy, March 30, 2009.
• "The New Geithner Plan is a Flop," New York Daily News, March 25, 2009.
• Economist.com Debate: "Keynesian principles: This house believes we are all Keynesians," debate with Brad DeLong, Economist.com, March 10, 2009.
• "The Better, Cheaper Mortgage Fix," with Eric Posner, Slate, March 2, 2009.
• "Anti-Trust America" with Paola Sapienza, City Journal, February 27, 2009.
• "Geithner's AIG Strategy," with Pietro Veronesi, City Journal, February 19, 2009.
• "People’s Will or Wall Street’s Will?" with Paola Sapienza, February 11, 2009.
• "From Awful to Merely Bad: Reviewing the Bank Rescue Options" with R. Glenn Hubbard and H. Scott, The Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2009.
• "How Big Finance Bought the Bailout Plan" with Paola Sapienza, Foreign Policy, February 2009.
• "A Trust Crisis," with Paola Sapienza, January 27, 2009.
• "Let's Stimulate Private Risk Taking," with Alberto Alesina,The Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2009.
• "Yes We Can, Mr Geithner," VOX, January 19, 2009.

2008

• "Greenspan roundtable: The wrong prescription," Economist.com Free Exchange, December 20, 2008.
• "Economists Have Abandoned Principle," with Oliver Hart, The Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2008.
• "A Bankruptcy to Save GM," with Joshua Rauh, November 18, 2008.
• "Plan B," The Economists' Voice, 2008, Vol. 5: Iss. 6, Article 4.
• "How to Fix the Credit Mess Without a Government Bailout: Quickie Bankruptcies," Forbes, October 27, 2008.
• "Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy," Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives. October 6, 2008. VIDEO: US House Representatives: Testimony (Luigi's testimony begins at 20:30).
• VIDEO: C-span interview prior to Congressional Testimony.
• "Plan B," The Economists' Voice, October 2008, Vol. 5: Iss. 6, Article 4.
• "Reject Henry Paulson's Raw Deal - There's a Far Better Solution," New York Daily News, September 24, 2008.
• "Let's Get the Bank Rescue Right," with R. Hubbard and H. Scott, The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2008.
• "Why Paulson is Wrong," The Economists' Voice, 2008, Vol. 5: Iss. 5, Article 2.
• Protest Letter sent to Congress on Wed Sept 24 2008 regarding the Treasury plan as outlined on that date.

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