Fabio da Silva Soares
Fabio da Silva Soares is a Research Professional at the Stigler Center, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business.
Coronavirus
Lack of Trust in Doctors Undermines Covid-19 Vaccination Strategy
Recent data from the Financial Trust Index (FTI) reveals that Americans are not as willing to be vaccinated as the government expects....
Coronavirus
Financial Trust Index, Covid-Edition: The CDC Is the Most Trusted Institution in America
A special wave of the Booth/Kellogg Financial Trust Index shows a high level of compliance with social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders. Approximately 45...
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Antitrust and Competition
Beefing Up Merger Enforcement by Banning Merger Remedies
The unraveling of the T-Mobile/Sprint remedy continues a trend of failed merger consent decrees. One solution, proposed by two antitrust scholars, is...
News
Reaching for Influence: Do Banks Use Loans to Establish Political Connections?
A new study examines whether privately-owned banks seek political influence by offering preferred loan terms to corporate borrowers with valuable political connections,...
Antitrust and Competition
The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact
Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences...
News
The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture
Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by...
Capitalisn't
The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence
In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...
Antitrust and Competition
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
Antitrust enforcers have tended to stay narrowly “in their lane,” failing to engage with how data is collected and used by digital...
George Stigler
Assessing George Stigler’s Economic Theory of Regulation
Despite its flaws and limitations, Stigler’s seminal article on the theory of economic regulation remains an important piece of scholarship worthy of...
