judges

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

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...

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

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...

LATEST NEWS

Big Tech

The Wicked Problem Embodied by The Twitter Files

Tom Ginsburg

In response to a recent ProMarket post about the Twitter Files, professor Tom Ginsburg points out that the toughest question lies in...

News

Study Shows Universal Bank Trades Are Informed by Private Commercial Borrower Information

Will Macheel

New research by Rainer Haselmann, Christian Leuz, and Sebastian Schreiber finds evidence suggesting that German banks with commercial lending relationships improve their...

News

Industrial Policy Is a Seductive Mirage

Michael C. Munger

Industrial policy was once so out of fashion that it was jokingly called “the policy that shall not be named.” Now it’s...

Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Deregulation is Undermining Innovation

Giovanni Morzenti

A 2000 amendment to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act made it easier for firms to merge without notifying US antitrust authorities. In new research,...

Commentary

The Real Danger of the Twitter Files

Stefano Feltri

The Editor-in-chief of the Italian news publication Domani shares his concerns about what's been left out of the controversial Twitter Files conversation...