# Professor Vasiliki Skreta's research on political immunity is featured

1 Faculty News May 16, 2013>

Excerpt from [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/whichmba/attack-immune-system) -- "In a new working paper, Karthik Reddy of Harvard Law School, Moritz Schularick of the Free University of Berlin and [Vasiliki Skreta](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasiliki-skreta) of New York University’s Stern Business School explore the relationship between the two phenomena. 'Whether immunity is a vice or a virtue,' they write, 'depends on whether stronger immunity is relatively more valuable to corrupt politicians or to honest ones.'”

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