In this episode of the CLE Vlog & Podcast series, Prof. Giorgio Zanarone (HEC Lausanne) and Karol Rutkowski (ETH Zurich) talk about Prof. Zanarone's recent paper "Relationships in the Wild: How Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms".

In their study, Zanarone and his co-authors Gani Aldashev (ULB) and Heikki Rantakari (Rochester) develop a relational contracting model to describe how firms, either privately owned or state owned, perform in the shadow of a ruler. After setting the paper in the context of the Washington consensus and the best practices of governance, Prof. Zanarone gives a summary of the model, shortly outlines its main implications and presents two interesting examples. 

Paper References:

Gani Aldashev – Université Libre de Bruxelles

Heikki Rantakari – University of Rochester

Giorgio Zanarone – HEC Lausanne

Relationships in the Wild: How Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms

Aldashev-Rantakari-Zanarone-May-23.pdf (chaire-eppp.org) Audio Credits for Trailer: AllttA by AllttA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZawLOcbQZ2w