NBER Profile: Luigi G. Zingales.

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Luigi G. Zingales is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Corporate Finance and Political Economy and the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Management. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Universita Bocconi in Italy in 1987 and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1992.

Zingales studies the theory of the firm, the relationship between organization and financing, and the decision to go public. He is also the co-developer of the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial...