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Renée Adams

Renée Adams is a Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her work focuses on information flows on boards, bank governance, group decision-making, the governance of central banks and gender diversity on and off boards.
Coronavirus

Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a...
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Academic Capture

Economics’ Lack of Interest in Gender Proves: the “Dismal Science” Really Is Dismal

Economists are still in the dark about the role of gender. For economics to be credible, we have to recognize that our knowledge is...
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Gender Inequality

When It Comes to Gender Imbalances, Academia’s Ignorance Is Self-Serving

The Ravina vs. Columbia case illustrates that challenging the status quo can be immensely costly. We economists should collectively think about how we can...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People

Ariel Ezrachi, Gene Kimmelman
Measured antitrust enforcement and a more comprehensive regulatory regime can ensure that we continue to benefit from digital markets. In attempting to...
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News

Spectrum Auctions: There Is Elegance in the Mundane

Anthony Lee Zhang
As a student, Booth School Professor Anthony Lee Zhang was puzzled that Paul Milgrom chose to spend so much of his time...
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Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

Hal Singer, Marshall Steinbaum
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Monopolists and the Pandemic: What Covid-19 Teaches Us About Concentrated Power

Barry C. Lynn
In the preface of his new book Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, Barry...
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Media

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Insider Trading, Central Banking, and the Fall of the CDC

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Antitrust and Competition

“Amazon Is Getting Richer by the Moment —But There’s a Limit to How Many People Jeff Bezos Can Buy”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Barry Lynn discusses the current state of American antimonopoly, what the Covid-19 crisis has taught us about...
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News

Politics, Inconsistent Economic Policies, Destructive Dissatisfaction: The Roots of Hong Kong’s Malaise

Bernard Yeung
In 2019, proposed amendments to the Extradition Bill triggered social unrest that has lasted for more than a year. Moving forward, Hong...
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