Rafael Jiménez-Durán
Rafael is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Social Science Research council and an Affiliate Fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. He will join Bocconi University as Assistant Professor in Economics in 2023.
Digital Platforms
The Economics of Content Moderation on Social Media
Social media platforms have moderated user-generated content since their inception. Economics helps us understand why they do it and how to regulate...
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Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Misunderstands Innovation. This is how we fix it.
Antitrust misunderstands innovation by focusing almost entirely on incentives to innovate to the neglect of questions regarding the ability to innovate through...
Digital Platforms
How Should the Law Tackle Rapidly Evolving Financial Technologies?
The last half-century has witnessed an explosion of technology changing how the financial landscape functions for customers and new and legacy banking...
News
The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather
In their first of two volumes, economic historians Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first fifty...
News
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
Event Notes: 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,...
Commentary
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.
