Financial regulations

In the last twenty years, political considerations have become important in financial economics. From political connections in firms to the effects of political uncertainty on investments and from the design of the rules that make financial markets viable to the politically-motivated changes in bankruptcy law, politics is playing a greater role in finance research. Yet this is the only conference dedicated to this topic. For this reason, the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is launching the third conference on the Political Economy of Finance. The conference will be by invitation only.