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How conflicts of interest — defined as financial, professional, or ideological stakes held by authors — affect perceived credibility in economics research, from John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales nber.org/papers/w33645

A recent paper co-authored by several Stigler Center-affiliated scholars, including @BarriosEcon, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales discussed how conflicts of interest impact the trustworthiness of economics research. Together with UCL Centre for Law, Economics & Society (CLES),

Academicians’ conflicts of interest can damage trust in their work, according to a study team that includes Chicago Booth research professional Shashank Singh and Booth’s Zingales. ms.spr.ly/6012S5M1p

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Read CentroCompetencia UAI for a Spanish translation of our article on how conflicts of interest in academia reduce trust in scholarship written by John M Barrios🇨🇺🇺🇦, Filippo Lancieri, Joshua Levy, Shashank Singh, Tommaso Valletti, and Zingales.