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Prateek Raj

Prateek Raj studies how free and inclusive markets evolve(d) in history, and in developing countries. Prateek is an Assistant Professor in Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and IIMB Young Faculty Research Chair, leading the IIMB Inclusive Markets Project. He is also a Junior Fellow at the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Commentary

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts...
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Antitrust and Competition

We Need to Deal With WhatsApp's Misinformation Problem

A peculiar feature of WhatsApp groups has made the spread of misinformation much easier. We need better design guidelines for platforms like WhatsApp, ones...
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Regulatory Capture

Prize-Winning Innovations in Measuring Civic Capital and Its Effects

The European Economic Association has announced that this year’s Hicks Tinbergen medal will go to ProMarket editor and Stigler Center faculty director Luigi Zingales...
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Rent seeking

A Tale of Two Cities: Hamburg and Lübeck

The German cities of Hamburg and Lübeck have an interwoven and eventful history. Whereas Lübeck offers an example of how dominant cities may become unattractive...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Markets in Europe Opened Up as Guild Monopolies Declined in the Sixteenth Century

Markets don’t function well if they are ridden with frictions like lack of information or lack of trust. A new working paper finds that...
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Antitrust and Competition

"Antimonopoly Is as Old as the Republic"

Should the U.S. enforce more explicit restrictions on monopolies, or can innovation and democracy alone mitigate the pervasive effects of monopoly power? A panel of...
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Media

Can Narratives Shape Society?

Narratives that alter beliefs and change norms or guiding principles may indeed have real and lasting effects.  In the 2017 American Economic Association Presidential Address,...
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Rent seeking

Does Regulation Build Trust or Entrench Cliques? Lessons From Merchant Guilds and the Taxi Industry

Close-knit networks, like guilds and taxi associations, are helpful in enhancing trust and reliability. Yet they can also become exclusive and rent-seeking. Last May,...
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Media

The Role of Narratives in Economics

Narratives are vectors of ideas. Nobel laureate Robert Shiller suggests that in the age of social information networks, economists need to rethink how and...
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Antitrust and Competition

How the Rise of Labor Market Power Helps Explain the Fall of US Manufacturing Employment

James Traina, Ivan Kirov
A new working paper explores the increase in labor market power in the US and what’s driving it. It shows manufacturing workers...
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Economic History Series

How Manufacturing’s Lobby Won and Lost its Political Influence

Jennifer Delton
What happens when supporting capitalism hurts capitalists? Do business lobbies ever control the economy to the extent we think they do? The...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Apple Locks Out the Competition with Its Digital Key

Adam Levitin
Apple’s efforts to dominate the contactless payments market and lock up the “digital key” space pose a profound threat to consumer privacy...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Dawn of Antitrust and the Egalitarian Roots of the Sherman Act

Sanjukta Paul
While it isn’t particularly controversial that concentrated economic power was a legislative target of the Sherman Act, when read as a corollary...
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Economic History Series

The Varied Ideologies—and Practices—of Socialist Nations in the Developing World

Jeremy Friedman
In an excerpt from his new book Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World, Harvard Business School professor Jeremy Friedman...
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Corporate Governance

How Much Can We Trust Index Funds on Climate Change?

Roberto Tallarita
According to a theory that is gaining support among academics and practitioners, we should expect index fund managers to undertake the role...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Ties that Bind Workers to Firms: No-Poach Agreements, Noncompetes, and Other Ways Firms Create and Exercise Labor Market Power

Evan Starr
Collusive no-poach agreements are per se illegal, but noncompete clauses are not. Recent research casts doubt on the rationale for this legal...
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