Michele Boldrin
Michele Boldrin is Joseph G. Hoyt Distinguished University Professor of Economics at Washington University in Saint Louis; Visiting Professor at University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice; Academic Council Member at the Institute for New Structural Economics, Peking University, and Research Fellow at CEPR in London.
Antitrust and Competition
Digital Platforms May Be Monopolistic Providers, But They Are Not Infrastructure
Social media platforms are not infrastructure nor natural monopolies, and they should be regulated only if they have monopolistic power and abuse...
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Economic History Series
The Fall of American Manufacturing and the Rise of Health Care
In an excerpt from his new book The Next Shift, University of Chicago historian Gabriel Winant explores how deindustrialization and the decline...
Antitrust and Competition
Antitrust and the FTC: Franchise Restraints on Worker Mobility
As currently formulated, antitrust’s rule of reason approach is not the best tool to deal with vertical noncompete agreements that limit worker...
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The 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines, now withdrawn by the FTC, did not represent sound merger policy, argues Steven Salop; rather, they were...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...
