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Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society?

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  • LUIGI ZINGALES

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type="main"> Academics’ view of the benefits of finance vastly exceeds societal perception. This dissonance is at least partly explained by an underappreciation by academia of how, without proper rules, finance can easily degenerate into a rent-seeking activity. I outline what finance academics can do, from a research point of view and from an educational point of view, to promote good finance and minimize the bad.

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  • Luigi Zingales, 2015. "Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society?," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 70(4), pages 1327-1363, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jfinan:v:70:y:2015:i:4:p:1327-1363
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