Ethical Economics (Epstein e Hagenbarth)

Financial economists, financial interests and dark corners of the meltdown: It’s time to set ethical standards for the economics profession by Gerald Epstein e Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth. This study, that indicated by Belluzzo, analyzes the conflict of interest that exists when academic financial economists, acting in their roles as presumed objective experts in the media and academia on topics, such as financial regulation, fail to report their private financial affiliations. Our main findings are that in the vast majority of the time, these economist did not identify these affiliations and possible conflicts of interest.