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Capitalisn’t: What’s in the Twitter Files and What Does It Mean?

ProMarket writers
In the March 30 episode of Capitalisn’t, Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingales discuss the Twitter Files, why so much of the mainstream media has...
Development

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

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new research, Pinelopi...
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? When Barack Obama was asked about carbon pricing...
Monetary Policy

The Fed and Bank Failures

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

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

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

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote it? While...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

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

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

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

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

Are There Really Gender Pay Differences in the CEO Labor Market?

Massimiliano Tani
The gender pay gap is a well-documented phenomenon in global labor markets, but this gap does not seem to apply to the pay of...
Monetary Policy

How Many Banks Are at Risk of Insolvency Right Now?

Amit Seru
Given the recent banking turmoil and failure of SVB and Signature and issues in First Republic, it is important to understand the risk to...
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