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Gigi Sohn

Gigi Sohn is a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, a Benton Senior Fellow and former counselor to then FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. She is also the co-Founder and former CEO of Public Knowledge.
Antitrust and Competition

The Trump FCC Can’t and Shouldn’t Be the Internet Speech Police

The debate over whether Section 230 needs to be updated is an important one. But the proper venue for that debate is...
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Antitrust and Competition

One Year After the Net Neutrality Repeal: the FCC Has Abdicated Its Role Protecting Consumers and Competition

Every promise made by broadband providers and every reason cited by the FCC in its decision to eliminate the net neutrality rules has proven...
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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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News

Industrial Policy Is a Seductive Mirage

Michael C. Munger
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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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Deregulation is Undermining Innovation

Giovanni Morzenti
A 2000 amendment to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act made it easier for firms to merge without notifying US antitrust authorities. In new research,...
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Commentary

The Real Danger of the Twitter Files

Stefano Feltri
The Editor-in-chief of the Italian news publication Domani shares his concerns about what's been left out of the controversial Twitter Files conversation...
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