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70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association
  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association
  • Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Luigi Zingales is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Safety Research, and Strategy and Management. The scientist's work addresses a range of topics with particular focus on Corporate Finance and Governance, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency, Merger and Competition Analysis, FinTech and Digital Finance, Risk Management in Financial Firms, and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management.

Recent publications by Luigi Zingales include:

  • "Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic" (2020), published in the Journal of Public Economics
  • "Exit versus Voice" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Economy
  • "How pervasive is corporate fraud?" (2023), published in Review of Accounting Studies
  • "The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry" (2021), published in Review of Financial Studies

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Review of Accounting Studies
  • Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Luigi Zingales has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notable among them are Oliver Hart, Filippo Lancieri, John Manuel Barrios, Tommaso Valletti, and Joshua M. Levy. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in research efforts across various domains of economics and management.

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships from prominent organizations including the American Finance Association in 2015, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and the Financial Management Association. These affiliations denote contributions to the academic communities in finance and management.

Best Publications

  • Financial Dependence and Growth

    Raghuram G Rajan;Luigi Zingales

  • What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

    Raghuram G. Rajan;Luigi Zingales

  • Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

    Steven N. Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

  • The great reversals: the politics of financial development in the twentieth century

    Raghuram G. Rajan;Luigi Zingales

  • Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

    Alexander Dyck;Luigi Zingales

  • The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis

    Marco Pagano;Fabio Panetta;Luigi Zingales

  • Trusting the stock market

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

  • The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

    Raghuram Rajan;Henri Servaes;Luigi Zingales

  • People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes

    Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

  • Innovation and Institutional Ownership

    Philippe Aghion;John Van Reenen;Luigi Zingales

  • In Search of New Foundations

    Luigi Zingales

  • Power in a Theory of the Firm

    Raghuram G Rajan;Luigi Zingales

  • Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud

    Alexander Dyck;Adair Morse;Luigi Zingales

  • Saving capitalism from the capitalists : unleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity

    Raghuram Rajan;Luigi Zingales

  • Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints

    Steven Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

  • The Value of the Voting Right: A Study of the Milan Stock Exchange Experience

    Luigi Zingales

  • Does Local Financial Development Matter

    Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

Frequent Co-Authors

Paola Sapienza
Paola Sapienza Northwestern University
Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago
Luigi Guiso
Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart Harvard University
Pietro Veronesi
Pietro Veronesi University of Chicago
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Steven N. Kaplan
Steven N. Kaplan University of Chicago
Lucian Arye Bebchuk
Lucian Arye Bebchuk Harvard University
Marco Pagano
Marco Pagano University of Naples Federico II
John Van Reenen
John Van Reenen London School of Economics and Political Science

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