José Azar
José Azar is an Assistant Professor at the University of Navarra and Research Associate at IESE Business School, specializing in antitrust and corporate governance. His work studies the implications for competition of the rise of common ownership of companies by large and diversified asset managers. More recently, he has done research on labor market concentration and power. He is a Research Affiliate at the CEPR, a member of Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP), and has published at top-tier journals (Econometrica, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, etc.). He worked at Charles River Associates in the Antitrust and Competition Practice, received his PhD from Princeton University, and his BA from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina.
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Enforcement, Inflation and Corporate Greed: What do we know?
At a recent Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) event, panelists, including the Stigler Center's own Luigi Zingales, reflected on the roles...
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Are Large Institutional Investors Actually Effective in Getting Companies to Reduce Their CO2 Emissions?
Large institutional investors have been accused of not doing
enough to reduce CO2 emissions. However, a new study finds that firms like
BlackRock, Vanguard,...
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International Policymaking Must Evolve
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
ESG
Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
Academic Capture
Academic Bias Under the Microscope
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
Money in Politics
Corporations Are Not “We the People”
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
Antitrust and Competition
Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices
Congress is currently considering two major bills that would regulate “self-preferencing” and related conduct by dominant digital platforms. Criticism of these bills...
Antitrust and Competition
Unfair Methods of Competition
The FTC’s new policy on unfair methods of competition is an assertion of the original purpose of the agency, allowing it to...
News
Event Notes: Whose Business is Health?
On Oct.14, the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative hosted a panel discussing if and how companies should consider the health implications of...
