Florencio López de Silanes

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Florencio López de Silanes , sometimes also written Florencio López-de-Silanes , is a Mexican economist and university professor . He researches and teaches in the field of tension between law and economics in the area of corporate governance , the competition of legal systems and the description of the relationship between financial systems and economic growth. He is regarded as a representative of the legal origins theory, which was coined by his teacher at Harvard Andrei Shleifer .

Career, research and teaching

López de Silanes studied at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , which he left in 1989 as Artium Baccalaureus in economics for the United States . There he graduated from Harvard University with a master's degree in economics in 1991 , but stayed at the university and carried out research in the field between financial economics , foreign trade and industrial economics . In 1993 he completed his training with a Ph.D. -Thesis under the title "Privatization and Restructuring".

From 1994 López de Silanes was Assistant Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government , from 1998 Associate Professor . In 2001 he followed a call from Yale University as a full professor. He left the university in 2005 after he, a scientific representative and campaigner for more transparency, had been discovered to have financial irregularities due to travel expenses being billed twice. He then moved to France to the Paris École normal supérieure . After teaching at the same time, first as a visiting professor and later as a full professor at the University of Amsterdam until 2007 , he also took on a professorship at the EDHEC Business School in 2007 . He has been a full member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .

López de Silanes' work and research focus is on corporate governance, financial markets, competition between legal systems, investor protection and privatization . In addition to numerous publications on these topics, he also appeared in an advisory capacity. In the 1990s, he co- authored a study with Robert Vishny , Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer, in which historical data were analyzed using econometric methods, on the impact of investor protection on the long-term development of the respective capital markets in 49 countries. These, more than ten thousand times cited, as well as other works of the authors often serve as an argument to illustrate the superiority of a civil legal system in terms of economic growth .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ thecrimson.com: "Yale Professor Ousted for Misconduct" (accessed October 20, 2012)
  2. ↑ Directory of members: Florencio Lopez-de-Silans. Academia Europaea, accessed September 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sigurt Vitols: "Strategies for trade unions in a European system of corporate governance" (PDF; 183 kB), August 2005 (p. 10f)
personal data
SURNAME López de Silanes, Florencio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López-de-Silanes, Florencio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century