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Academic Literature Shows: The Problems with Regulating Campaign Finance Are Deeper Than Mere Lack of Political Will

The experience of regulating campaign finance in the last four decades tells us that the "donor class" has found ways to turn wild once and...

In the 2016 Presidential Election, Only 0.4 Percent of Donations Were Made by Donors Who Donated to Multiple Candidates

In the 2016 election, Donald Trump received few donations from people who had donated to other candidates in the Republican primary; the opposite occurred...

140 Years of Antitrust: The Evolution of Economic Language Related to Trusts and Antitrust

In the third installment of our four-part series on the history of antitrust language in American political discourse, we review the evolution of economic...

Employees of Large Companies Favor Hillary Clinton

Clinton received overwhelming support from workers in the banking, tech, and mobile industries. 98 percent of the total amount raised by workers at financial institutions...

Attorneys General for Sale? We Should Focus on the Practice, Not Just on Trump’s Role

Trump is not the only, nor the biggest, player in the game of influencing attorneys general. Singling him out for opprobrium is aiming at the...

Donald Trump and the Political Economy of Real Estate Tax in the US: Q&A With Professor Edward Kleinbard

Edward Kleinbard from the University of Southern California explains how Donald Trump was potentially able to lose nearly a billion dollars of his investors’...

140 Years of Antitrust: "Competition" in Democratic and Republican Platforms

In the second installment of our four-part series about the history of antitrust language in American political discourse, we review the evolution of economic language...

Donation Preferences: Republicans Outnumbered in Academia

Vast majority of faculty and staff members from universities support Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump's percentage of donations from faculty and staff is on average 0.5...

Campaign Financing Capture Index: Donald Trump Keeps Losing Affection from Big Donors, While Clinton Maintains It

As of August 31, 31.5 percent of Hillary Clinton’s contributions come from donors who contributed more than $100,000. Over the last three indices calculated by...

Campaign Financing Capture Index: 37.8 Percent of Clinton's Donations Come From the Top 0.1 Percent of Her Donors

30.7 percent of Clinton’s contributions came from donors who contributed more than $100,000. Clinton’s main super PAC raised $8.08 million in July–nearly all of...

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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?...

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...

Monetary Policy

How Many Banks Are at Risk of Insolvency Right Now?

Amit Seru, Erica Xuewei Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski

Given the recent banking turmoil and failure of SVB and Signature and issues in First Republic, it is important to understand the...