Papers & Opinions

Empirics | Political institutions | Special interest politics

Why We Don’t Write More Papers on Political Finance

Opinion

Posted on 17 August 2021

By Orkun Saka

Despite the commonly held views of economists on regulatory capture, our profession has been much more hesitant in recognising similar conflicts of interests that may exist in economics research. This...
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Electoral politics | Media | Regulation

Finance and Politics: New Insights

Opinion

Posted on 4 August 2021

By Orkun Saka

A rapidly expanding literature has shown the importance of political economy factors for legislative and regulatory actions in the financial sector and ultimately financial sector stability and efficiency. This column...
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Central banking | Political institutions | Regulation | Special interest politics

Political Economy in Finance

Opinion

Posted on 6 July 2021

By Enrico Perotti

This post reports on recent work presented at the first edition of the CEPR Conference Series on the Political Economy of Finance, which focused on the politics of regulation and...
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Central banking | Empirics

Fifty Shades of QE: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics

Paper

Posted on 3 July 2021

By Elisabeth Kempf

We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more...
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