Rene M. Stulz (OSU): Governance, Risk Management, and Risk-Taking in Banks. Thomas Gehrig and Marlene Haas (Vienna): Lehman Brothers: Did Markets Know? Matteo Crosignani (NYU): Why Are Banks Not Recapitalized During Crises? A Political Economy Explanation. Allen N. Berger and Raluca A. Roman (South Carolina): Did Saving Wall Street Really Save Main Street? The Real Effects of TARP on Local Economic Conditions. Christopher Gandrud and Mark Hallerberg (Hertie): It's Not How Much, But When They Spend: Political Institutions, Contingent Liabilities, and the Costs of Responding to Financial Crises. Cass Sunstein (Harvard): Financial Regulation and Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment. Andrew F. Tuch (WUSTL): The Untouchables of Self-Regulation. From Harvard Law Review, a review essay on the politics of financial regulation and the regulation of financial politics by Adam J. Levitin. Wall Street whistleblowers: The personal price of exposing financial wrongdoing can be devastating — William D Cohan meets three men who went public and paid for it. David Cay Johnston reviews All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins. The right way to control the banks: Roger E. Alcaly reviews The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins reviews Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski. The neoliberal bailout: Jonathan Kirshner reviews The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression by Daniel W. Drezner (and more and more). Danielle Douglas on how Obama can rein in Wall Street without going through Congress. Ignore the naysayers: Dodd-Frank reforms are finally paying off.
