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Luigi Zingales, Chicago Booth Professor of Finance, says Ireland's success story is a result of its low tax rates attracting foreign investment. Michael Purves, Weeden And Co Chief Global Strategist, predicts tech and financials are going to continue to outperform next year. Julian Kheel, The Points Guy Senior Analyst, says we may see smaller seats on flights.
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Luigi Zingales, professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, discusses Facebook Inc.'s market dominance and why he thinks competition is better than regulatory intervention. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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After years of pleasing its fan base among social progressives and proponents of economic disruption, Silicon Valley finds itself in the hot seat. On October 31, legal representatives from Facebook, Google, and Twitter appeared before the House and Senate judiciary committees to discuss Russian meddling efforts in the 2016 U.S. election, including fake news stories and incendiary political ads propagated on the internet platforms and social media sites.
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Move over, Baby Boomers; Millennials have supplanted you as the largest generation in the workforce. And that fact, as reported by the Deloitte University Press, has made workplace culture the hottest topic in business today.
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We need to talk about Facebook. Google (or Alphabet, if you prefer) is more ubiquitous; Apple makes more money; Amazon is a more obvious threat to the bricks-and-mortar economy; yet there is something uniquely troubling about the social media leviathan.
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What does populism mean? Why do people buy it? Is the critique against the established elites valid? What are the main causes of the populist threats to the free society? What is meant by the populism-stagnation spiral? And does migration matter? How can public discourse and liberal democracy be restored?
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During an interview with Geoffrey Burger and Robert McGarrah, two experts in the field of ESG performance as it relates to valuing human capital, Mr. McGarrah says "Human capital is a critical component of successful ESG performance. Every CEO will agree that company employees and workers for their franchisees and suppliers play a vital role in corporate performance.
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This week, Harris County announced its intention to sue the French multinational chemical producer Arkema after volatile organic compounds exploded at its flooded plant in Crosby following Hurricane Harvey. The explosion sickened first responders with toxic fumes and exposed the surrounding area to untold amounts of contamination.
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Business Insider's Silverstein talks with University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Luigi Zingales. Zingales discusses a statement he cut from one of his first books predicting that someone like Donald Trump could become President of the United States.
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On Saturday, September 23, Harvard Law School, with the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago, will host a one-day conference on "populist plutocrats": leaders who capitalize on anti-elite sentiment to win office but once elected, appear interested primarily in enriching themselves and their close allies.
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Many MBA applicants feel that they are purchasing a brand when they choose a business school. However, the educational experience you will have is what is crucial to your future, and no one will affect your education more than your professors. Today, we focus on Luigi Zingales from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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In the spring of this year Mediapart was the subject of a case study by one of the departments at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. This is the background to an unexpected tribute which comes at a time when the model of 'free' news publishing is more than ever shown to be a dead end for the independence of journalism.
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No ano de sua fundao, em 1600, a East India Company recebeu do governo britnico uma concesso para operar por 15 anos. Mas o desejo de uma das mais antigas corporaes do mundo de estender seu monoplio acabaria impactando a poltica britnica por dois sculos.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business. It offered far more movies than its smaller rivals, used computers to better manage that inventory, and designed its stores to be bright and family friendly. By 1993, just eight years after its founding, Blockbuster was the global leader in movie rentals, with more than 3,400 stores worldwide.
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(Translation) No. Because it's a threat to freedom, "said Professors Guy Farmer and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in an editorial in The New York Times shortly after the conviction of Google. And they explain where the Internet's susceptibility to monopolization is. It's about the so-called. Network effects. "On a traditional market - they write - the choice of a product (for example, a car tire) by one consumer does not affect other consumers choosing this product, and competitors generally provide the best products at the lowest possible prices."
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The European Union imposed a 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine on Google last Tuesday for manipulating its search engine results to favor its own comparison shopping service. It is just the latest institution to recognize the increasing monopolization of the technology industry.
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(translated) Luigi Zingales, an economist and professor at the University of Chicago, presented this week at the Dutch Central Bank investigation into the background of the Italian mountain bad loans totaling about 360 billion euros. In the margins of the conference, told the Italian Zingales how the economy, politics and working culture of his country on the banks' balance sheets.
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(translated) FTChinese.com translated and reposted an article talking about whether monopoly and antitrust law needs to be rethought for the digital age. In the article, Chicago Booth Professor Luigi Zingales was quoted.
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MPR News chief economics editor Chris Farrell spoke with Derek Thompson from The Atlantic and Luigi Zingales, professor at Chicago's Booth School of Business, about the effect oligopoloies - airlines, cellphone carriers, internet providers - have on micro and macro economies in the U.S.
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When it comes to policing corporate fraud, independent auditors are supposed to be the cops on the beat, but too often they miss or overlook important clues that signal big trouble is brewing.
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Recent concerns over the current state of American democracy are warranted, but the loss of confidence in the system began long before the controversial 2016 presidential election, according David Moss, a professor at the Harvard School of Business.
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Women financial advisors who engage in misconduct face harsher punishment and worse career repercussions than their male counterparts, reports InvestmentNews, citing new research.
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What is the future of the European economy? What are the challenges facing Europe? What are the implications of Brexit for the United Kingdom and the rest of the Europe? Nicholas Crafts of the University of Warwick, Luis Garicano of the London School of Economics, and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about these questions and more in front of a live audience at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Dopo il Governo Prodi e quello Monti, anche il Governo Gentiloni si arrende ai tassisti, gli altri governi non ci hanno neppure provato. Grazie alla pavidit della nostra classe politica, i tassisti sono riusciti a bloccare non solo la forma pi economica di Uber (quella che negli Stati Uniti si chiama Uber Pop e costa il 30% meno dei taxi americani che costano il 30% meno di quelli nostrani), ma a rendere difficile e costosa anche l'opzione di Uber che utilizza le auto blu registrate per il trasporto clienti.
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Financial markets are responding to prospects that Italy may leave the 19-member Eurozone, as chances grow that the anti-euro Five-Star Movement political party may win the next round of national elections.
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Las condiciones favorables a las empresas locales, dice el profesor de la U. de Chicago, no permiten que las compaas y consumidores se beneficien de la competencia internacional. Adems, critica los ataques que el presidente electo hace a travs de su cuenta de Twitter.
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La Asociacin Bancaria Italiana ampara la filtracin de la lista de los causantes del agujero de 47.000 millones del Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Empresarios, inmobiliarias, armadores y equipos de ftbol figuran entre los nombres.
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