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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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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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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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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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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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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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Antitrust and Rule by Judges

Paul Tucker
The early-1980s Posner-Stigler memorandum to incoming president Reagan’s transition team is interesting for a host of reasons, but most of all in...
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Should the European Union Require Tech Firms to Adopt a Common Charger?

Federico Innocenti, Martin Peitz
According to a new European Commission directive expected to be approved in the next few months, tech firms will have to use...
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Chart of the Week: Economists Don’t Think Congress Should Make Price Gouging Illegal

Brooke Fox
Most economists disagree with a new bill in the US that would set limits on "unconscionably excessive prices," according to a recent...
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Neoliberal Economists Are Giving Biden Bad Advice on Inflation

Hal Singer
To spare the economy from the pain of further interest rate hikes, the President should aggressively pursue anticompetitive conduct by companies in...
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How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users? 

Randy Picker
The Senate looks to be nearing a vote on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would prohibit gatekeeping digital platforms...
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New eBook Revisits George Stigler’s Theory of Regulatory Capture 50 Years Later

Filippo Lancieri, Luigi Zingales
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining...
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Firms Gerrymander Ownership of Polluting Plants to Reap Public and Regulatory Benefits

Janet Gao, Ran Duchin, Qiping Xu
New research has discovered that many companies who appear to sell, or ‘divest,’ their toxic plants, actually retain relationships with their buyers....
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