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Call for 2027 Applications: The Stigler Center Affiliate Fellowship

The Stigler Center is seeking pre-tenure candidates for its Affiliate Fellows program. Applications are due January 22. You can apply here.

Competition Agencies Should Use Conditional Fines to Complement Behavioral Remedies That Age Poorly

In new research, Patrice Bougette, Frédéric Marty, and Simone Vannuccini propose that competition authorities add a conditional fine to antitrust cases that is activated when behavioral remedies are no longer effective.

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

The following is an excerpt from Seeing Like a Supply Chain by Miriam Posner, now out at Yale University Press.

SVB Shows Giving Growing Banks More Time To Meet Standards Comes With Risks

As banks grow, tiered regulation places them in stricter categories to address their greater risks. In new research, Pedro M. Batista finds that transition periods between tiers might delay when some higher standards become mandatory, potentially leaving growing banks exposed while known risks remain unresolved, as happened with Silicon Valley Bank. Federal Reserve reforms should address this gap between growing risks and delayed safeguards.

Finding a New Direction for the Common Good

Matt Lucky reviews Mariana Mazzucato’s new book The Common Good Economy: A new compass, now out at Basic Venture Group.

Top Scientific Research Is Globalizing, But Economics Is Becoming More Concentrated

Prizewinning research in most science-related academic fields has become less concentrated among institutions. However, as Richard B. Freeman, Danxia Xie, Hanzhe Zhang, and Hanzhang Zhou discuss in new research, prizewinners in economics continue to come from a narrow set of American institutions.  

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