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
How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment
A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers...
Economic History Series
How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence
What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The...
Antitrust and Competition
How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key
Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy...
Antitrust and Competition
The Dawn of Antitrust and the Egalitarian Roots of the Sherman Act
While it isn’t particularly controversial that concentrated economic power was a legislative target of the Sherman Act, when read as a corollary...
Economic History Series
The Varied Ideologies—and Practices—of Socialist Nations in the Developing World
In an excerpt from his new book Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, Harvard Business School professor Jeremy Friedman...
Corporate Governance
How Much Can We Trust Index Funds on Climate Change?
According to a theory that is gaining support among academics and practitioners, we should expect index fund managers to undertake the role...
Antitrust and Competition
The Ties that Bind Workers to Firms: No-Poach Agreements, Noncompetes, and Other Ways Firms Create and Exercise Labor Market Power
Collusive no-poach agreements are per se illegal, but noncompete clauses are not. Recent research casts doubt on the rationale for this legal...
