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Asher Schechter

ProMarket's former deputy managing editor. As a journalist, he has mostly covered issues related to the intersection between politics and the economy, such as antitrust, corruption, lobbying and social movements. Prior to joining the Stigler center, he worked for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz-TheMarker, where he was a senior features writer and still writes as a political columnist. He is the author of Rothschild: The Story of a Protest Movement (2012, Hakibbutz Hameuhad-Sifriat Poalim Publishing Group), a nonfiction book covering Israel’s social protests of 2011, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper (New York Hub). He previously hosted The Cost of Doing Business, a twice-weekly podcast about business and economics in Israel. You can follow him on Twitter at @asherschechter.
Antitrust and Competition

Is More Antitrust the Answer to Rising Wealth Inequality?

Asher Schechter
University of Michigan professor Daniel Crane: “The story that somehow antitrust law is dead, that it’s been killed, is wrong. It hasn’t. It’s very...
Rent seeking

New Study Finds Evidence That Rents Might Be Higher in the U.S. than in Europe

Asher Schechter
A new paper by Caroline Freund and Sarah Oliver from the Peterson Institute for International Economics explores the origins of the world’s billionaires, and...
Regulatory Capture

ProMarket Interview: “The Lobbyists and the Regulators Were Really, Socially and Culturally, the Same People”

Asher Schechter
University of Connecticut’s law professor James Kwak explains the mechanisms that drive cultural capture, and why he think it is less prevalent today. In his...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Are Business Schools Responsible For Strengthening Ethical Norms Among Students and Alumni?

Asher Schechter
A panel at Fordham University discusses the social signals business schools communicate to students. Are business schools partly to blame if their alumni engage in...
Antitrust and Competition

How to End Too-Big-To-Fail? At Minneapolis Fed Symposium, Participants Reject Big Bank Breakup

Asher Schechter
Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke: "Size is not the only relevant attribute of banks.” Should big banks be broken up in order to ensure the...
Media

Alan Rusbridger: “The Level of Scrutiny That the Press Would Apply to its Own Failures is Minimal”

Asher Schechter
ProMarket interview: Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, on media capture. In 2003, Rebekah Wade (now Brooks), the former editor of the British tabloid...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Why Most Boards Fail

Asher Schechter
A Stigler Center panel debate examines the impact of activist shareholders and the role of dissenting board members. Corporate governance has seen some substantial reforms...
Rent seeking

ProMarket Interview: Robert J. Shiller on Competition, Deception and Rent-Seeking

Asher Schechter
Yale economist and Nobel Prize Laureate Robert J. Shiller explains why competition in itself does not always weed out deception and rent-seeking. “Our free-market system...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

ProMarket Graph: Is There a Correlation Between Perception Measures and Reported Levels of Corruption?

Asher Schechter
New graph compares corruption perception indexes with reported cases of corruption.  What is the best way to measure corruption, and can there be a reliable way to...
Media

What Makes M&A Reporters More Accurate?

Asher Schechter
A study by Kenneth R. Ahern and Denis Sosyura ranks M&A reporters based on their accuracy. Rumors and speculation have always been a part of...
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