Ariel Weinberger

Ariel Weinberger is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the George Washington University School of Business. He is also an Affiliated Faculty at the Institute of International Economic Policy at the Elliot School of International Affairs (GWU) and a CESifo Research Network Affiliate. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2015. His research interests are in international economics. Specifically, firm responses, and corresponding spillovers across businesses, to trade and financial globalization.

Why Big Business Loves Costly Regulations   

In new research, Luca Macedoni and Ariel Weinberger argue that large firms are more likely to lobby in favor of strict industry regulations when they can reduce competition by imposing high fixed costs on smaller, less-profitable firms.

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