The Equitable Economy

ESG & Corporate Governance

The system of formal and informal rules by which a company is governed. Corporate governance shapes more than just a given's company value - it dictates who controls the capital in the economy and so how this capital is being put the use. Corporate governance therefore affects and is affected by the degree of cronyism and rent-seeking in society.

Health Care

Americans spend significantly more on health care than any other country. Why? Answers to this question range from hospital monopolies to perverse incentives to opaque pricing to medical licensing to pharmaceutical firms abusing IP practices to “creeping consolidation.” Why is the US health care system so broken? And what can antirust do about it? Catch-up on our coverage of antitrust and the US health care system.

Income Inequality

Labor

Race and Gender

Development

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

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Gaurav Chiplunkar

Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new...

ESG & Corporate Governance

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

Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva, Aaron Yoon

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

Labor

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

Massimiliano Tani, Keiran Sharpe, Andrew Valentine

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

Globalization

Globalization’s Uneven Impact on Women’s Occupational Attainment

Yoav Roll, Moshe Semyonov, Hadas Mandel

The literature on globalization’s impact on women’s workforce participation generally takes a positive outlook but still produces mixed results. In their research,...

Book Excerpts

How Societies and Families Perpetuate Gender Wealth Inequalities

Céline Bessière, Sibylle Gollac

In "The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality," sociologists Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac show how ostensibly egalitarian property...

Labor

How Women in the Workplace Has Changed Over the Last 50 Years

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizable gender gaps still remain. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti...

Income Inequality

To Understand Earnings Inequality, We Need To Study Hours Inequality

Daniele Checchi, Cecilia García-Peñalosa

A growing literature on income inequality and labor earnings has overlooked the contribution of disparities in hours worked. In new research with...

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...

ESG & Corporate Governance

Investing in Influence: Investors, Portfolio Firms, and Political Giving

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Ray Fisman, Francesco Trebbi, Eyub Yegen

A new paper examines the relationship between the rising concentration in institutional investors' ownership of publicly traded U.S. firms and portfolio companies'...

Big Tech

Twitter’s Corporate Leaders Pushed their Stakeholders under the (Musk) Bus

Lucian Bebchuk, Kobi Kastiel, Anna Toniolo

In a new study, we examine whether, in negotiating the sale to Elon Musk, Twitter’s corporate leaders took into account the commitments...

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Development

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

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, Gaurav Chiplunkar

Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new...

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?

Monetary Policy

The Fed and Bank Failures

Raghuram Rajan, Viral V Acharya

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

Antitrust and Competition

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, Frédéric Marty

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

Antitrust and Competition

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen, Pau Roldan-Blanco, Tom Schmitz

Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote...

ESG & Corporate Governance

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

Ethan Rouen, Kunal Sachdeva, Aaron Yoon

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

Regulation

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

Renée Adams, Thomas Mosk

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

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Latest news

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

Biden’s Second-Best Economic Agenda

The Fed and Bank Failures

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

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

Letters that Matter: How Interest Groups Shape Financial Legislation

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