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Research Interests: financial market equilibrium, information and uncertainty in economics, managerial incentives
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It took Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a former shoe-shine boy who never earned a high school diploma, four attempts to become president of Brazil. But the struggles he has waged to reach the top may seem mild compared to the problems he now confronts. Wharton faculty members and analysts who specialize in Latin American economies say that Lula, as he is popularly known, must find a way to prevent Brazil from defaulting on its debt and keep the world’s ninth largest economy from going the way of Argentina.…Read More
Knowledge at Wharton - 11/6/2002