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How the ‘Market Share Opportunism’ of Investment Advisers is Harming Investors and Public Companies

Bernard Sharfman
Investment advisors on both sides of the aisle have coopted ESG for their own exploitative marketing tactics to increase their own assets under management...
Regulation

Crypto-Influencers Give Poor Investment Advice — and the SEC is Taking Notice

Joseph Pacelli
New research reveals that cryptocurrency advice from social media influencers could lead investors to lose money on average. Are regulators doing enough to protect...
Commentary

How To Really Fix Banking

Laurence Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff and Rick Miller argue that banking as we know it is dying. It’s time to arrange a smooth transition to limited purpose...
News

Should We Regulate the Revolving Door of Regulators?

Elise S. Brezis
Is the revolving door of top regulators one of the reasons for a lack of good regulation? Based on her recent research, Elise Brezis...
Antitrust and Competition

Structuring a Structural Presumption for Merger Review

Filippo Lancieri
The consumer welfare standard can’t be saved with more theory. The problem is how it works in practice, and solving that means changing the...
Antitrust and Competition

Race and the Consumer Welfare Standard

Bennett Capers
The consumer welfare standard employs a collective consumer in its model when evaluating possibly anticompetitive behavior. This aggregated approach fails to recognize that such...
Antitrust and Competition

Today’s Tax Code Empowers Monopolistic Corporations. It Has Been and Can Be Different

Niko Lusiani
Niko Lusiani and Susan Holmberg write that the United States should tax profitable corporations not just to raise revenue and redistribute unequal gains but...
Antitrust and Competition

The Effective Competitive Constraint Standard

Stavros Makris
The consumer welfare standard, which broadly considers higher output and lower prices as its primary goals, is not well equipped to monitor the numerous...
Antitrust and Competition

Locating Competitive Process Claims in the Consumer Welfare Debate

Andrew I. Gavil
Debates about the consumer welfare standard have failed to produce a consensus around either its scope or an alternative standard. Regardless of the outcome...
Antitrust and Competition

The Life of Antitrust’s Consumer Welfare Model

Herbert Hovenkamp
“Consumer welfare” as an objective of antitrust law and regulation has its origins in several vague and even conflicting ideas of how to evaluate...
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