Konstantin Kosenko
Konstantin Kosenko is a Senior ​Economist, Macroprudential Policy unit in the finance Division - Research Department at the Bank of Israel
Antitrust and Competition
Using Regulation to Dismantle Powerful Corporate Pyramids
Evidence from the United States, Japan, Korea, and Israel shows that to successfully curb the influence of large corporate entities, it is...
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Bailout
What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...
News
A New Stigler Center Case Study Explores the Link Between Italy’s Morandi Bridge Disaster and Crony Capitalism
Two years ago, the Morandi bridge collapse claimed 43 lives. Based on financial statements, Italian government documents, and interviews with independent experts...
News
Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are...
COMMENTARIES
Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Shale Oil, and the Fall of Chuck E. Cheese
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.
Capitalisn't
Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses...
Coronavirus
The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election
The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to....
Antitrust and Competition
Regulators Turn Their Attention Towards Apple’s Exploitation of App Developers. Now What?
Congress could level the playing field for independent app developers by looking to regulatory templates in music.
