Federico Masera
Federico Masera is a Lecturer in the School of Economics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is an applied political economist that studies issues related to crime and social norms.
Inequality
Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Antitrust and Competition
The ACCC’s News Media Bargaining Code: Experimenting with “Decentralized Regulation” of Dominant Digital Platforms
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission recently proposed a mandatory bargaining code to govern negotiations between digital platforms like Google and Facebook...
Friedman 50 Years Later
Market Forces Already Address ESG Issues and the Issues Raised by Stakeholder Capitalism
Eugene Fama: When do market forces push firms toward stakeholder goals, rather than just shareholder goals? When do market forces push firms...
Capitalisn't
Capitalisn’t Is Back: Can Economists and Journalists Work Together to Improve Capitalism?
Is capitalism the engine of prosperity, or is it the engine of destruction? On this podcast, we talk about the ways capitalism...
Friedman 50 Years Later
Missing in Today’s Shareholder Value Maximization Credo: The Shareholders
Luca Enriques: Today’s corporate world is very different from the one Milton Friedman wrote in. In a world where the question of...
Antitrust and Competition
Australia’s News Media and Digital Platforms Bargaining Code is Great Politics But Questionable Economics
If the Australian government wants to subsidize high-quality journalism then it should, well, subsidize high-quality journalism. The new proposed ACCC code would...
Friedman 50 Years Later
Which Problems Should Companies Try to Solve?
Sanjai Bhagat, R. Glenn Hubbard: It is true that capitalism needs to be inclusive in its benefits, but 50 years on, Friedman’s...
Media
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Covid-Overwhelmed Hospitals, and Plastic
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
