Maddalena Grignani
Maddalena Grignani is a Research Professional at the Rustandy Center, University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Coronavirus
When and How the US Should Reopen Is a Matter of Politics, Trust in Institutions and Media, Survey Says
A new survey from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that political party affiliation and...
Coronavirus
How Are Americans Coping With the Covid-19 Crisis? 7 Key Findings From a Household Survey
New research from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that lower-income Americans, especially women,...
Latest news
Antitrust and Competition
Paid to Show the Drug Works: Why “Blind” Clinical Trials for New Drugs are Far Less Blind Than They Should Be
New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones.
COMMENTARIES
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Elder Care Facilities, Twitter, and Pot
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.Â
Antitrust and Competition
It Is Such a Small World: The Market-Design Academic Community Evolved in a Business Network
Private equity funds such as Michael Dell's MSD Capital made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the 2017 FCC spectrum...
Antitrust and Competition
How Market Design Economists Helped to Engineer a Mass Privatization of Public Resources
In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission conducted a complex two-sided auction to reallocate spectrum from broadcasters to mobile communications companies. The way...
Alberto Alesina
How Alberto Alesina Challenged the Median Voter Theorem
"Alberto Alesina's insight was that the economy was driven neither by the opportunistic behavior of politicians nor by the pursuit of partisan...
Alberto Alesina
Not Everyone Agreed With Alberto Alesina, but Nobody Could Ignore the Work He Did
Harvard professor Jeffry Fridel was a friend and a colleague of Alberto Alesina. They shared the beginning of their careers, a house...
Antitrust and Competition
The Death of Independent Podcasting: What Spotify Is Trying to Do With the Joe Rogan Deal
Spotify is gaining power over podcast distribution by either buying production directly or striking exclusive deals, as it did with Rogan. Once...
