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Dmitry Kuvshinov

Dmitry Kuvshinov is an Assitant Professor of Finance at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His research focuses on interactions between finance and macroeconomics, using long-run data to shed light on rare crisis events and secular trends in financial and macroeconomic variables.
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How Unusual is the Recent Boom in Profits and Values of US Listed Corporations?

In the past decades, the US stock market and business profits have been growing much faster than the rest of the economy....
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Rent seeking

The Rate of Return on Everything

A new paper purports to have finally unlocked the mystery of the rate of return on capital. Here the authors report on their research on...
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Event Notes

Event Notes: “China’s Political Economy” in Review

Andy Shi
The Stigler Center's "China Political Economy" webinar series returns Thursday, February 9. Here's a reminder of what we covered in our first...
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Economic History

To Build an Equitable Economy, We Must Understand Capitalism’s Racist Heritage

Elizabeth Kennedy
American capitalism was built on racial exploitation, from the enslavement of Black people to institutionalized discrimination and its structural impact on our...
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Industrial Policy

How To Ensure Industrial Policy Promotes Public Over Private Gain

Lenore Palladino
Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s...
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Fiscal Policy

More than Economics, Ideology Determines US Voters’ Preferences for Redistribution

Gustavo de Souza
The US stands out among developed economies for its comparatively low level of redistribution as a percentage of GDP. Gustavo de Souza...
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Research

Stakeholder Motivations for “Private Sanctions” Against Russia

Utsav Gandhi
As the war in Ukraine enters its second year, a new study measures stakeholders’ desire to see their firms exit Russia and...
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Big Tech

The Wicked Problem Embodied by The Twitter Files

Tom Ginsburg
In response to a recent ProMarket post about the Twitter Files, professor Tom Ginsburg points out that the toughest question lies in...
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News

Study Shows Universal Bank Trades Are Informed by Private Commercial Borrower Information

Will Macheel
New research by Rainer Haselmann, Christian Leuz, and Sebastian Schreiber finds evidence suggesting that German banks with commercial lending relationships improve their...
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