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Money in Politics

While the conventional debate usually revolves around the amount of campaign donations each candidate receives (how much), we spotlight also issues such as the concentration of donations (who donates), or more stealth forms of money in politics such as lobbying.

ESG & Corporate Governance

Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Ray Fisman, Francesco Trebbi, Eyub Yegen
A new paper examines the relationship between the rising concentration in institutional investors' ownership of publicly traded U.S. firms and portfolio companies'...
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Antitrust and Competition

Survey Highlights Backlash to Increasingly Political Corporate America

Brooke Fox
A recent poll shows that 71% of Americans view large companies negatively. The change has been driven by Republicans who dislike the...
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Commentary

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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Money in Politics

What Citizens United Did Not Predict and Why It’s Time To Reconsider

Matilde Bombardini
Citizens United v. FEC stands in the public eye as the U.S. Supreme Court case that flooded U.S. elections with “dark money”...
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Money in Politics

Companies’ Diversity Commitments Conflict with Political Donations

Katherine Giscombe
Many US businesses that promote their workplaces as supportive of traditionally marginalized groups have created diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs for...
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Money in Politics

Healthcare Companies Spent More on Lobbying Than Any Other Industry Last Year

Brooke Fox
Threatened by regulated price caps from congress, the pharmaceutical industry spent nearly $390 million on lobbying in 2021 according to new data...
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Money in Politics

Characteristics and Behavior of the Rising Class of Small Campaign Donors

Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard DeWitte, Vincent Pons
New research on US political donations under $200 reveals characteristics of these donors as well as their motivations. A  Q&A with the...
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ESG & Corporate Governance

How the US Partisan Divide Shapes Global Capital Flows

Elisabeth Kempf
A new empirical paper explores how partisan perception affects capital allocation beyond national borders, showing that the global investment practices of US...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech, the FTC, and Ordoliberals: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2021

ProMarket writers
As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.
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Antitrust and Competition

Announcing the Participants in the Fall 2021 Stigler Center Journalists in Residence Program

ProMarket writers
This month, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Romania, Ukraine, Slovenia, and the United...
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Development

Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Gaurav Chiplunkar
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new...
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Fiscal Policy

Biden’s Second-Best Economic Agenda

Walter Frick
Efficiency is out and political economy is in. But what does that imply about making good policy?
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Monetary Policy

The Fed and Bank Failures

Raghuram Rajan, Viral V Acharya
Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan explain how quantitative easing contributed to the problems underlying the recent bank failures such as that of...
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Antitrust and Competition

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, Frédéric Marty
Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, and Frédéric Marty argue in their research that antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic must take...
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Antitrust and Competition

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco, Tom Schmitz
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote...
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ESG & Corporate Governance

History Shows that Voluntary ESG Standards Lead to a More Focused ESG Disclosure

Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva, Aaron Yoon
In recent years, ESG reports have become more common for publicly traded companies. However, critics have found the information they provide to...
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Regulation

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

Renée Adams, Thomas Mosk
Members of Congress are inundated with an avalanche of correspondence on a daily basis. But what persuades them to heed the call?...
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