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Antitrust and Competition

Can AI Catch Cartels Across Borders?

Yoan Hermstrüwer and David Imhof
In new research, Yoan Hermstrüwer and David Imhof analyze how AI can help antitrust authorities predict cartels by assessing international bidding data in countries with similar legal and market structures.
Cultural Economics

A New Firearms Tax Design Could Reduce Homicides Without Costing Gun Owners

Luis Armona and Adam Rosenberg
In new research, Luis Armona and Adam Rosenberg argue that current state firearm excise taxes inadequately address gun-related crimes. They propose a tax that benefits society by targeting guns responsible for the most homicides, while accommodating the challenging political economy of firearms regulation in the United States.
Antitrust and Competition

India’s AI Market Regulation Risks Falling on Dated Ideas

Abhineet Nayyar
India is working on legislating new competition rules to govern artificial intelligence and other tech markets. But recommendations from a recent report by the Competition Commission of India suggest it might revert to old competition standards that will likely prove ineffectual in governing the new AI market, writes Abhineet Nayyar.
Academic Capture

Academic Economists Have an Ethics Problem

Kate Conlow
In a recent article, Kate M. Conlow explores how feeble requirements among the American academic economics community to disclose conflicts of interest are compromising research and harming policymaking.
Antitrust and Competition

China’s New “Safe Harbor” Antitrust Rules Offer Less Safety Than Suggested

Yin Hu
China’s new safe harbor rules for vertical dealing, including practices like resale price maintenance hitherto presumed generally anticompetitive, are less accommodating than they may seem, writes Yin Hu.
Book Reviews

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage

Matthew Lucky
Matt Lucky reviews The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it by Arindrajit Dube, now out at Penguin Press.

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