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August 27, 2020
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Craftier Than Cash: How Banks Use Credit Cards to Bribe Bureaucrats

A forensic analysis reveals that Chinese banks deployed credit cards as a form of “disguised corruption.”
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May 4, 2020
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Tax Havens Mask Global Risk Exposures

Corporations raise vast sums of money through subsidiaries in tax havens. A new study unravels big surprises in global imbalances.
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May 7, 2020
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Stanford GSB Scholars Weigh in on Stimulus Package and a Post-COVID-19 Economy

In this panel, professors agreed that something needed to be done, fast, to help the economic fallout, but disagreed on federal government’s strategy.
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October 8, 2020
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Anat Admati on Milton Friedman and Justice

Friedman’s credo that corporations should focus only on maximizing shareholder value rests on assumptions that are “far from true in the real world.”
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July 15, 2020
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Stimulus Money Might Stimulate Insider Trading

A new study reveals that politically connected shareholders cashed in with suspiciously well-timed trades during the 2008 federal bailout.
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