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Policies To Reduce GHG Emissions Should Look to Agricultural Carbon Markets

Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn
As governments and companies look for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural sequestration offers one promising method to combat climate change. However, for...
Commentary

Enrolling Capitalism in the Fight Against Climate Change

Alessio Terzi
Environmentally conscious critics of contemporary capitalism often highlight the system’s permissiveness toward egregious pollutant activities, typically enjoyed by the ultra-wealthy. Using private jet ownership...
Commentary

Bail In Universities to Fix the Student Loan Crisis

Benedikt Koehler
Universities should take some responsibility for the student debt they produce. Benedikt Koehler offers several potential solutions for governments and higher education institutions to...
Research

Investors Are Failing To Take into Account the Green Transition

Shaojun Zhang
A stock market that has priced in the transition risk away from greenhouse gasses would see higher future returns, the so-called carbon premium, for...
Antitrust and Competition

Reclaiming The Antitrust Law Of Potential Competition Mergers

Herbert Hovenkamp
In order to discuss the Meta/Within merger decision, it is important to understand the legal underpinnings and history of competition merger cases. Most mergers that...
Geoeconomics & Conflict

What Has the World Learned from a Year of War in Ukraine?

Walter Frick
One year later, what has the world learned about conflict from the war in Ukraine? In an interview with ProMarket's Walter Frick, Chris Blattman...
Antitrust and Competition

Why “The Jury’s Out” on the Government’s Case Against Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

Harry First
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice and eight states sued Google, claiming it runs its digital ad business to unfairly advantage its own...
Antitrust and Competition

An Excessive Evidentiary Burden Sunk the FTC’s Case Against the Meta/Within Merger

Steven Salop
In early February, a district court judge rejected the FTC’s preliminary injunction suit to block Meta’s purchase of Within, a developer of a virtual...
Antitrust and Competition

How the AT&T Case Can Inform Big Tech Breakups

Monika Schnitzer
Breaking up companies that antitrust regulators consider too dominant can be costly and might negatively impact innovation and consumer welfare. As economists and policymakers...
Antitrust and Competition

A New Merger Tool Protects Consumers from Limits of the Cournot Effect

Alessandro S. Kadner-Graziano
The widely accepted Cournot effect assumes that the merger of complementary firms benefits downstream firms and consumers (in addition to the merged firms themselves)...
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