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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Put Corporate Stakeholder Promises to the Test

Lucian Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, Roberto Tallarita
Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, corporate leaders pledged to look after all stakeholders, not just deliver value to shareholders. Did they...
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Coronavirus

Study: the Covid-19 Eviction Moratoriums Helped Reduce Food Insecurity and Mental Stress

Nitzan Tzur Ilan
A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria...
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Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal

Gabriele Gratton, Barton Lee
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to...
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Challenges to Sound Global Governance for Health

Lawrence O. Gostin
In an excerpt from his new book, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin examines the challenges and...
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The Digital Divide During Epidemics: Who Benefits From New Financial Technologies?

Orkun Saka, Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy
A new paper finds that exposure to an epidemic in the current year significantly increases the likelihood that an individual completes financial...
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Commentary

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts...
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Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...
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Coronavirus

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa, Piergiuseppe Fortunato
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done...
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Coronavirus

One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t

Tim Besley, Sacha Dray
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing...
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Coronavirus

Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy

Fabio da Silva Soares
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects....
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Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting

Hamid Mehran
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn...
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Antitrust and Competition

Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?

Einer Elhauge
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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News

Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote

Hal Weitzman
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
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Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
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Corporate Governance

Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?  

Lucian Bebchuk, Roberto Tallarita
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
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Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
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