Luigi Zingales Named “Monster Economist”

Italy’s most famous newspaper and one if its oldest, Corriere della Sera, profiled Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, and four other economists as potential winners of Nobel prizes.  The newspaper called out the five as the “most brilliant brains behind globalization.”

In the interview, Zingales, who has won the Bernacer Prize for best young European financial economist, comments on how his native Italy has not fared well economically. He explained that Italy “did nothing to change when the world was changing all around [it].”

View a video of Zingales discussing his research into corporate fraud and whistle blowing.