Daniel Kuehn
Daniel Kuehn is a Senior Research Associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute. He teaches cost-benefit analysis at George Washington University. Daniel’s research focuses on labor economics and employment policy, particularly apprenticeship training and workforce development. He also studies and publishes in the history of economics, particularly the life and thought of James M. Buchanan and Warren Nutter. He holds a PhD in Economics from American University, an MPP in labor market policy from George Washington University, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from the College of William and Mary.
Economic History Series
The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School
The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...
Aaron Director
Aaron Director and the Empirical Foundation for the Chicago Attitude on Antitrust
Empirical evidence, not just disembodied theory, was an important building block of Director’s view that competition could defeat concentration, writes Daniel Kuehn.
Editor's note: Aaron...
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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
Antitrust and Competition
Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments? Â
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
