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Chart of the week: US Economists on a Total Russian Oil Ban

Brooke Fox
US economists surveyed by Chicago Booth's Initiative on Global Markets shows that most agree that a total ban on Russian oil imports...
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Coronavirus

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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Inequality

Chart of the Week: Minority Underrepresentation in Local US Politics

ProMarket writers
ProMarket's first-ever Chart of the Week comes from a new paper that studies the underrepresentation gap of ethnic minorities in local US...
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Corporate Governance

Elizabeth Holmes Is the Exception: More Women on Boards Lead to Less Corporate Wrongdoing

Ido Baum, Dalit Gafni, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
The so-called “opportunity theory” suggests that women are statistically underrepresented in white-collar offenses because they are underrepresented in higher corporate echelons. A...
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Antitrust and Competition

Global vs. Local: What Drives Changes in Labor’s Share of Income

Amit Zac
A new working paper examines the relationship between competition policy and the decline in the labor share across the developed world and...
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Corporate Governance

How Much Can We Trust Index Funds on Climate Change?

Roberto Tallarita
According to a theory that is gaining support among academics and practitioners, we should expect index fund managers to undertake the role...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Should Be Used as a Targeted Response to Employer Concentration, But It Can’t Do Everything

Gregor Schubert, Anna Stansbury
A large and growing body of research demonstrates that employer concentration affects the wages of many American workers. Antitrust is an important...
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Health Care

Who Bears the Cost of Administrative Problems in Health Care?

Joshua Gottlieb
A new paper explores the resources consumed by the complicated billing process in health care and the process’ impact on patients’ access...
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Antitrust and Competition

Tech Platforms and the Antitrust Duty to Deal

Erik Hovenkamp
Why is there a widespread view that existing American antitrust law is ill-equipped to address dominant platforms that exclude or discriminate against...
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Coronavirus

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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Antitrust and Competition

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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News

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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Antitrust and Competition

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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Antitrust and Competition

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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News

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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News

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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Antitrust and Competition

How Should Antitrust Deal With Facebook? A Stigler Center Panel Investigates

Utsav Gandhi
Panelists at the Stigler Center’s recent antitrust conference look at the antitrust case against Facebook and discuss potential theories of harm, as...
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