Political economy of finance
From: Stigler Center (@StiglerCenter)
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Submit your research for the 2026 Stigler Center-CEPR Political Economy of Finance Conference. 📍 Chicago | 🗓️ Nov 6-7, 2026 🔎 Theme: Crony Capitalism in the 21st Century. How does concentrated wealth reshape political power and democracy today? ⏰
Suggested angles
Frame research around how post-2008 financial deregulation enabled wealth concentration among institutional investors, directly linking banking policy to political donation patterns and legislative capture in specific sectors
Position analysis on the 2020s wealth transfer mechanisms—private equity consolidation, stock buybacks, and executive compensation—showing empirical connections between corporate finance structures and lobbying intensity on financial regulation
Propose examining the feedback loop between political donations from concentrated finance sectors and regulatory decisions that further entrench market power, with case studies from 2015-2025 financial policy debates
Submit research examining how specific financial mechanisms (buybacks, PE consolidation, executive comp) directly funded political influence that blocked regulatory reform—a causal mechanism the Stigler Center would find methodologically rigorous.
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