Luigi Zingales
Dr. Luigi Zingales is Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He also serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research, and a Fellow of the European Governance Institute. In addition, he is the Director of the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago. Dr. Zingales’ research interests span from corporate governance to financial development, from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system. Dr. Zingales has also published extensively in the major economics and financial journals. He writes editorials for Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy’s most distinguished business daily, and for L’Espresso, a weekly magazine.
Luigi Zingales Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economics
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B.A., Economics
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, The University of Chicago
Director, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, The University of Chicago
Contributor, Il Sole 24 Ore
Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research
Fellow, European Governance Institute
Member, Global Council on Corporate Governance
PUBLICATIONS
His book, Saving Capitalism from Capitalists, coauthored with Raghuram G. Rajan, has been acclaimed as "one of the most powerful defenses of the free market ever written" by Bruce Bartlett of National Review Online.
In his latest book, “A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity,” the Financial Times has written “Zingales’ fundamental diagnosis is right."
HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
2008 Leo Melamed Prize for Research
2008 Templeton Grant Recipient by The John Templeton Foundation
2003 Bernácer Prize for the Best Young European Financial Economist
2002 Nasdaq Award for BestPaper in Capital Formation
CAREER
In 2014 he was the President of the American Finance Association.
In July 2015, he became the director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago which he is refocusing on promoting and diffusing research on regulatory capture and the various distortions that special interest groups impose on capitalism.
He also served as a Taussig Research Professor at Harvard University from 2004 - 2015, and 2005-2006.
His work has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Finance and the American Economic Review.