Flavio Toxvaerd
Dr Flavio Toxvaerd is an economist at the University of Cambridge, specializing in the economics of infectious diseases and industrial organization. His research, writings and contact can be accessed on his website https://sites.google.com/site/toxvaerd11/ and he can be followed on Twitter with the handle @toxvaerd1.
Coronavirus
Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy
Many economists object to framing the response to the Covid-19 pandemic as choosing between health and wealth. Health protection and wealth creation...
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Antitrust and Competition
How to Make the Market for Real Estate Agents More Competitive
Delinking buyer and seller commissions will make markets for real estate agent services more competitive, allowing buyers and sellers to negotiate commissions...
Corporate Governance
Dislocation, Dislocation, Dislocation: Covid, the Retail Crisis, and REITs
In an excerpt from his new book Retail Recovery, retail expert and author Mark Pilkington explores the impact of the sector's decline...
Corporate Governance
Addressing Climate Change Must Begin with Verifiable Carbon Accounting
Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna propose a new approach for verifiable accounting on indirect corporate emissions that would apply to all corporations,...
Antitrust and Competition
The FTC Was Correct to Withdraw the Vertical Merger Guidelines
The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, now withdrawn by the FTC, did not represent sound merger policy, argues Steven Salop; rather, they were...
Economic History Series
The Chicago Planning Program and the Interdisciplinary Tradition of the Chicago School
The Chicago Planning Program, an interdisciplinary program that operated at the University of Chicago between 1947 and 1956, is an often-neglected part...
Antitrust and Competition
Why a “Whole-of-Government” Approach is the Solution to Antitrust’s Current Labor Problem
For the majority of America’s regulatory history, the problem of employer monopsony was understood as a competition policy issue that required direct...
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust Law’s Unwritten Rules of Unfair Competition
Does the Sherman Act actually “protect competition, not competitors”? An examination of the case law reveals a more nuanced picture, in which...
