Politics and Corruption in Business and Finance

-- selected research on politics & corruption from the IGM working paper series --

The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis
By By Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Francesco Trebbi

Competition and Truth in the Market for News
By Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro

Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States
By Raghuram Rajan

Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?
By I.J. Alexander Dyck, Adair Morse, Luigi Zingales

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
By Chang-Tai Hsieh, Daniel Ortega, Edward Miguel, Francisco R. Rodriguez