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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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.
COMMENTARIES
The Death of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law
Hong Kong's rule of law has suffered a fatal blow. With the national security law, the authoritarian regime has all that it...
News
President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont
Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...
Corporate Governance
How Companies Spin Off Environmental Liabilities to Avoid Legal Obligations
Environmental externalities are vexing for corporate decision makers, but some companies have figured out a way to deal with them: a spinoff....
Coronavirus
How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome...
Antitrust and Competition
The Useful Distraction of Section 230
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
Antitrust and Competition
Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private...
