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Taxation

Why American Voters Are Still Not Ready to Support Carbon Taxes

Economists and policy elites love carbon taxes, but voters dislike them. A new study suggests that ideology has a lot to do with it....
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Study: Political Connections Lower Companies’ Tax Rates and Risk of Being Audited

How does the revolving door between Congress and corporate America affect the enforcement of tax policy? A new study examines how tax rates change...
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Reducing Wealth Inequality Through Wealth Taxes Without Compromising Economic Growth

New research proposes two ways of using wealth taxes to reduce inequality and increase efficiency. Economic inequality has risen significantly within major economies around the...
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How to Even Out the Pains and Gains from International Trade

The idea of creating transfer schemes to compensate the losers from international trade yet still preserve some of the gains faces a myriad of...
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Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 4–May 12)

A whistleblower alleges fraud in the audits of Silicon Valley companies; AT&T acknowledges that hiring Michael Cohen was a "bad mistake"; new analysis finds that...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 10–Feb. 17)

This week in political economy. Yesterday's New York Times editorial: “The terror that has gripped their elected officials … is fear of the wealthy gun...
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Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 22– Jan. 5)

This week in political economy.    In Project Syndicate, Joseph Stiglitz writes about the GOP’s recently-passed tax package, which he dubs “The US Donor Relief...
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The Trump Tax

Will Donald Trump follow through on his populist campaign promises? The stock market can tell us a lot about the President-elect's economic policies.  President-elect Donald Trump broke...
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One Happy Byproduct of 2016: An Overdue Tax Policy Debate

Rich people are much richer than they used to be in large part because they pay much less tax than they used to. This—not...
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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’...
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Voters Still Believe Politics is About the Common Good, Not Just Rent-Seeking

Chad Kendall, John G. Matsusaka
Do voters still believe that politics can be a source for common-good policies and not just partisan bickering and rent-seeking? With political...
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How to Design Data Protection Laws That Actually Work 

Filippo Lancieri
More and more countries are passing data protection laws, yet empirical studies show that these laws rarely deliver on their promises. A...
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Are Monopolists or Cartels the True Source of Anticompetitive US Political Power?

Herbert Hovenkamp
Trade associations are often the biggest obstacles to competitive markets, especially when those organizations use their influence to change public policy in...
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The Uber Files Reveal The Risk of Private Interests Controlling Our Data

Greg Erhardt
Researchers discovered that the introduction of Uber had negative impacts on transportation, findings that required cooperation with public authorities when Uber refused...
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Antitrust and Competition

Google’s Anticompetitive Conduct and the Remedies to Prevent It

Utsav Gandhi
The Stigler Center, of which ProMarket is a part, recently hosted a panel discussion looking at the antitrust case against Google and...
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