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Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

What Are They Hiding? What Firms Don’t Want Us to Know About Their Economic Development Incentives

Nathan Jensen, Calvin Thrall
State and local governments offer firms all kinds of incentives in hopes of spurring local economic development. New research finds that a...
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News

How Unusual is the Recent Boom in Profits and Values of US Listed Corporations?

Dmitry Kuvshinov, Kaspar Zimmermann
In the past decades, the US stock market and business profits have been growing much faster than the rest of the economy....
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Coronavirus

The Digital Divide During Epidemics: Who Benefits From New Financial Technologies?

Orkun Saka, Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy
A new paper finds that exposure to an epidemic in the current year significantly increases the likelihood that an individual completes financial...
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Antitrust and Competition

Is There Really a Conflict Between Better Corporate Governance and More Competitive Product Markets?

Miguel Antón, Florian Ederer, Mireia Giné, Martin Schmalz
A new study shows that the supposed tradeoff between better corporate governance and more competitive product markets may not exist. More commonly-owned...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Non-Revolving Door Between the SEC and the Plaintiffs’ Bar

Alexander I. Platt
Nowhere does the “revolving door” spin more quickly than at the Securities and Exchange Commission. But, even at the SEC, not all...
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News

Barking Up the Right Tree: How Shareholder Activists Raise Issues to Placate Large Mutual Funds

Manish Jha
A new paper examines whether shareholder activists tailor their campaigns to persuade large institutional investors and finds that in proxy communications, activists...
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Coronavirus

Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel

Joshua Gottlieb
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses travel longer distances, and...
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News

Judges Who Use Economic Reasoning in Court Decisions Rule In Favor of Business More Often

Siying Cao
A new paper finds that judges who attended law schools with a strong law-and-economics intellectual environment use more economic reasoning, which is positively correlated with...
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News

Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.
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Antitrust and Competition

Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?

Einer Elhauge
Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, recently gave a speech condemning the use of the consumer...
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News

Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote

Hal Weitzman
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
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Antitrust and Competition

The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers

Ted Tatos
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
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Corporate Governance

Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments?  

Lucian Bebchuk, Roberto Tallarita
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
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Inequality

Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?

Belinda Archibong
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Mergers and Smoking Guns

Erik Peinert
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
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Corporate Governance

Will “Portfolio Primacy” Throw a Monkey Wrench in Elon Musk’s Plans to Acquire Twitter?

Bernard Sharfman
The SEC's definition of fiduciary duty allows institutional shareholders to vote against Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid thanks to portfolio primacy.
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