Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society?

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Evidence-based policymaking: promise, challenges and opportunities for accounting and financial markets research** (2018, unknown): “’ Zingales (2015) in turn has a more pessimistic view of finance’s contributions to public policy in his presidential address. Hellwig (2015) is also more critical of the role of economic research and policy recommendations of economists.”
Populism and the economics of globalization (2018, background): “Many prominent economists supported financial globalization, believing that the promise would eventually outweigh the risks.22 That in turn strengthened the hand of policy makers in the US, Europe, emerging markets, and multilateral institutions like the IMF and the OECD who pushed for financial ope”
Fraudulent Income Overstatement on Mortgage Applications During the Credit Expansion of 2002 to 2005 (2017, unknown): “Zingales (2015) reports that $113B of fines have been levied against lenders based on mortgage fraud during the housing boom, and he further emphasizes that this number “severely underestimates the magnitude of the problem.””