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Orkun Saka

Orkun Saka is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Sussex, a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre.
Coronavirus

The Covid-19 Vaccine is Nearly Here. The Question is: Will People Take It?

In addition to the challenges involved in manufacturing and distributing the new Covid vaccine from Pfizer, the reluctance of many Americans to...
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Coronavirus

Can Covid-19 Erode Young Individuals’ Trust in Politics for Decades to Come?

A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in...
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Coronavirus

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new...
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President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

Guy Rolnik, Roy Shapira
Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...
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Corporate Governance

How Companies Spin Off Environmental Liabilities to Avoid Legal Obligations

David F. Larcker, Andrew Baker, Brian Tayan
Environmental externalities are vexing for corporate decision makers, but some companies have figured out a way to deal with them: a spinoff....
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Coronavirus

How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms

John M. Barrios, Luigi Zingales
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Useful Distraction of Section 230

David Carroll
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
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Antitrust and Competition

Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy

Nicholas Lemann
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private...
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Antitrust and Competition

Kicking Around Section 230: Don’t Confuse Politics and Policymaking

Randy Picker
Congressional hearings may make for good TV and viral social media posts, but reforming Section 230 would be more difficult than it...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction

Nicolas Petit
Schumpeter’s indirect entry theory fits the average tendencies of competition in digital industries. When the model is added to standard assumptions and...
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