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Antitrust and Competition

Samsung and the Political Power of South Korean Chaebols: a Webinar with Sangin Park and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
The Stigler Center’s 2020 Antitrust and Competition Conference will discuss the interconnection between monopolies and politics. Our pre-conference Webinar Series explores the extent to which firms can leverage...
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Coronavirus

The Political Impact of the Pandemic on Open Societies: a Webinar With Tyler Cowen

ProMarket writers
Princeton professor Markus Brunnermeier and professor and blogger Tyler Cowen discuss the long-term implications of lockdown and contact tracing measures. "People at first grossly...
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Coronavirus

Europe’s Last Call, China’s PR, and a New Role for the State: a Conversation Between Luis Garicano and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Former academic and current Member of European Parliament Luis Garicano and Luigi Zingales discuss the future of the European Union and of its member...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: How to Exit the Covid-19 Quarantine – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
For the good of public health, it's important that we continue staying in quarantine, at least for another month or two. But eventually, we...
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Coronavirus

Deaths of Despair and Covid-19: a Webinar With Angus Deaton and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Deaths of despair are a slow disintegration of working-class lives: Will the coronavirus accelerate this process? In a conversion with Luigi Zingales, Nobel laureate...
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Coronavirus

Covid-19, Central Banks, and Debt Monetization: a Webinar With Olivier Blanchard

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard discuss the impact of the current global health crisis on public finances and policy...
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Coronavirus

How and When to Restart the Economy: a Webinar with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer explore what options we have to stop the pandemic and recover economic activities. Is...
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Antitrust and Competition

America’s Concentration Problem: a Webinar With Thomas Philippon, Chad Syverson, and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
Watch a Stigler Center webinar with NYU professor Thomas Philippon and Chicago Booth professor Chad Syverson on Philippon’s new book, The Great Reversal: How...
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Coronavirus

Is Monetary Policy Independence Out of Date? A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 3)

ProMarket writers
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
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Coronavirus

Constitutional Limits to Independent Agencies and Central Banks: A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 2)

ProMarket writers
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Misunderstands Innovation. This is how we fix it.

Ketan Ahuja
Antitrust misunderstands innovation by focusing almost entirely on incentives to innovate to the neglect of questions regarding the ability to innovate through...
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Digital Platforms

How Should the Law Tackle Rapidly Evolving Financial Technologies?

Oscar Borgogno, Giuseppe Colangelo, Cristina Poncibò
The last half-century has witnessed an explosion of technology changing how the financial landscape functions for customers and new and legacy banking...
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News

The Road to Hayek: A Comprehensive History of Neoliberalism’s Forefather

Bruce J. Caldwell, Hansjoerg Klausinger
In their first of two volumes, historians of economics Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger access new archival material to explore the first...
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News

International Policymaking Must Evolve

Paul Tucker
In this Q&A about his new book for ProMarket, Paul Tucker explains the changing global order and the need for academics, policymakers...
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ESG

Capitalism Does Not Require a Tradeoff Between Planet and Profit

Alessio Terzi
Critics of capitalism claim that the economic system incorrigibly encourages the exploitation of the planet and is thus incompatible with efforts to...
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Academic Capture

Event Notes: Academic Bias Under the Microscope

Andy Shi
That scholarship often reflects conscious and unconscious biases has long been an open secret in academia. On April 22, Professors Christian Leuz,...
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Commentary

Corporations Are Not “We the People”

Geoffrey R. Stone
The Citizens United ruling contradicts the Founders, decades of Supreme Court precedent and the will of the American people.
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