How Conflicts of Interest Impact the Marketplace of Ideas
- October 16, 2024
Recently, U.S. Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Jonathan Kanter spoke about a “crisis of expertise in our antitrust and competition community,” due to rampant conflicts of interest among academic researchers. Researchers are conflicted when they have an interest (financial, career-related, or ideological) in their findings pointing in a particular direction (e.g. a corporate merger being beneficial). Is AAG Kanter right? Is the problem limited to the antitrust community? What can be done about it?
Join the Stigler Center for a conversation with Filippo Lancieri (Georgetown Law) and Luigi Zingales (Chicago Booth), as they share key findings from their new timely paper, The Conflict-of-Interest Discount in the Marketplace of Ideas. Together with Stefano Feltri (Bocconi) they explore how to navigate these critical issues to build stronger foundations for trustworthy science.
Filippo Lancieri, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Stefano Feltri (moderator), Adjunct Professor and Communication Advisor, Institute for European Policy Making, Bocconi University
Date: October 16, 2024
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. CT