On the Financial Crisis
"Can't Pay, Won't Pay", with Paola Sapienza and Luigi Guiso, The Economist, June 26, 2009.
For additional information, see Professors Zingales, Sapienza and Guiso's paper, "Moral and Social Constraints to Strategic Defaults on Mortgages", (June 2009).
"A New Capital Regulation For Large Financial Institutions", with Oliver Hart (Harvard), May 28, 2009.
"Dilute or Die", The Economist, May 14, 2009.
"Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks", with R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia) and Hal Scott (Harvard), The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2009.
"Stop Subsidizing the Street", with Paola Sapienza, City Journal, April 29, 2009.
AUDIO: Bloomberg News "Regulation of Financial Institutions", April 2, 2009.
"A New Regulatory Framework", Forbes.com, March 31, 2009.
"To Regulate finance, Try the Market", with Oiver Hart, Foreign Policy, March 30, 2009.
AUDIO: WTTW-TV Chicago Tonight, "Should the U.S. Auto Industry be Bailed Out?” March 30, 2009.
"The new Geithner plan is a flop", New York Daily News, March 25, 2009.
Live Economist.com Debate: Join Luigi Zingales in this debate and vote "Keynesian principles. This house believes we are all Keynesians", debating 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.
"The Housing Crisis and Bankruptcy Reform: The Prepackaged Chapter 13 Approach", with Eric A. Posner, February 23, 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 (Columbia) and H. Scott (Harvard), 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. For additional information visit www.financialtrustindex.org
"The Future of Securities Regulation”, January 27, 2009.
AUDIO: First Business: "Fixing the Economy", January 26, 2009.
AUDIO: In The Loop: "Failure of the Bailout", January 23, 2009.
"Let's Stimulate Private Risk Taking", with Alberto Alesina (Harvard), The Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2009.
AUDIO: Bloomberg.com "Opposes Bank Nationalization, January 21, 2009.
"Yes we can, Mr Geithner", VOX, January 19, 2009.
"Greenspan roundtable: The wrong prescription", The Economist.com Free Exchange, December 20, 2008.
"Economists Have Abandoned Principle", with Oliver Hart (Harvard), Wall Street Journal, December 3, 2008.
"A Bankruptcy to save GM", with Joshua Rauh (Chicago Booth), November, 18, 2008.
AUDIO: NPR Program Economy: "Why Haven't Credit Problems Been Resolved"?, November 7, 2008.
AUDIO: NPR Program Planet Money: "Bailout Costly For Taxpayers", November 5, 2008.
"Paulson's Gift", with Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago, NBER & CEPR), November 3, 2008.
"Plan B", October 10, 2008.
"How to fix the credit mess without a government bailout: quickie bankruptcies", Forbes, On My Mind Cramdown, October 27, 2008.
AUDIO: "NPR Program Planet Money: "Economic Turbulence Bands Economists Together", October 24, 2008.
"Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy” Written Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives. October 6, 2008.
"Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy” Oral Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of Representatives. October 6, 2008. CSPAN live video of the hearing can be seen at http://oversight.house.gov.
C-span interview prior to Congressional Testimony is available on C-span video library (click on Flash Player icon on right-side of page).
AUDIO: NPR Program Economy: "Rescue Plan's Critics Offer New Proposal", September 26, 2008.
"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 (Columbia) and H. Scott (Harvard), The Wall Street Journal, September 24, 2008.
“Why Paulson is Wrong," The Economists' Voice (2008): Vol. 5: Iss. 5, Article 2.
Mortgage Protest Letter sent to Congress on Wed Sept 24 2008 regarding the Treasury plan as outlined on that date.
AUDIO: NPR Program Planet Money: "Econ Paper: Why Paulson Is Wrong", September 19, 2008.
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