Edward Stringham

Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Professor for the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise, Fayetteville State University

Edward P. Stringham is the

Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Professor for the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise,

Fayetteville State University

Lloyd V. Hackley Endowed Professor for the Study of Capitalism and Free Enterprise at Fayetteville State University. He was previously the Shelby Cullom Davis Associate Professor at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut and past President of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, Editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of two dozen articles in refereed journals including the Journal of Institutional & Theoretical Economics, Quarterly Review of Economics & Finance, and Journal of Labor Research.

Published Research

Are Regulations the Answer for Emerging Stock Markets?

Edward Stringham, Peter J. Boettke, J.R. Clark | Sep 02, 2008

Does the emergence of a stock market require a well-developed legal and/or regulatory system? This article provides an in depth case study of the Czech stock market.

The Failings of Legal Centralism for Helping Stock Markets in Transition

Edward Stringham, Peter J. Boettke | Jan 2006

After Czech voucher privatization many companies simply ignored the interests of their shareholders.

Brokers, Bureaucrats, and the Emergence of Financial Markets

Edward Stringham, Peter J. Boettke | Dec 2004

Following up on the recent studies by Stringham (2002, 2003), this paper focuses attention on the emergence of financial markets for several reasons. The common perception is that complicated financial instruments require state sanction to emerge. It is widely argued that in the absence of state regulation of of financial markets, cheating will be common. This paper shows, in contrast, that the evidence does not support this pessimistic view.

Working Papers

The Alternative of Private Regulation: The London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market as a Model Edward Stringham, Ivan Chen \| Oct 18, 2012 A system of private regulation gives more firms access to capital markets and more choices to investors, and it can be viewed as a model for other markets to follow.	If a Pure Market Economy Is So Good, Why Doesn’t It Exist? Edward Stringham, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel \| Apr 2009 Many economists argue that a pure market economy cannot come about because people will always have incentives to use coercion. This working paper maintains that these economists leave out an…
Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy Benjamin Powell, Edward Stringham \| Apr 2009 Public choice economists began studying anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This working paper surveys the important public choice contributions to the…	The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb Edward Stringham \| Apr 2009 David Lipscomb (1831-1917) was an influential Tennessee preacher. Although few, if any, economists appear to be aware of Lipscomb, his writing includes many points that political economists,…

The Alternative of Private Regulation: The London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market as a Model Edward Stringham, Ivan Chen \| Oct 18, 2012 A system of private regulation gives more firms access to capital markets and more choices to investors, and it can be viewed as a model for other markets to follow.	If a Pure Market Economy Is So Good, Why Doesn’t It Exist? Edward Stringham, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel \| Apr 2009 Many economists argue that a pure market economy cannot come about because people will always have incentives to use coercion. This working paper maintains that these economists leave out an…
Public Choice and the Economic Analysis of Anarchy Benjamin Powell, Edward Stringham \| Apr 2009 Public choice economists began studying anarchy in the 1970s. Since then, the amount of research on anarchy has burgeoned. This working paper surveys the important public choice contributions to the…	The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb Edward Stringham \| Apr 2009 David Lipscomb (1831-1917) was an influential Tennessee preacher. Although few, if any, economists appear to be aware of Lipscomb, his writing includes many points that political economists,…

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