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Roy Shapira

Roy Shapira is a legal scholar who focuses on the interactions between regulation, reputation, and litigation. His book on the topic, Law and Reputation, just came out with Cambridge University Press. Shapira received his LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School, and he is currently an associate professor at the IDC Law School.
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President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

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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Media

How the Legal System Helps the Media Hold the Powerful to Account

The legal system is the bloodline of investigative journalism. Recent maneuvers by the Trump administration may jeopardize it.     When done effectively, investigative journalism can greatly...
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Corporate Governance

Does Environmental Crime Pay?

A new Stigler Center working paper conducts a cost-benefit analysis of DuPont's emissions of a toxic chemical dubbed C8. The Trump administration has shown clear signs that it...
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Regulatory Capture

Managing Political Risk

A recent working paper suggests that firms react to political risk, both passively by cutting investment and employment, and actively by ramping up lobbying efforts. From Trump...
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Regulatory Capture

Attorneys General for Sale? We Should Focus on the Practice, Not Just on Trump’s Role

Trump is not the only, nor the biggest, player in the game of influencing attorneys general. Singling him out for opprobrium is aiming at the...
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Regulatory Capture

Regulators as Validators

Special interest groups can use their influence over regulation to water down not just potential legal sanctions but also potential reputational sanctions. What deters corporate...
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Regulatory Capture

Making it Look Like a Struggle

 For capture to be sustainable, the regulator has to find ways to be perceived as being tough on the regulated without really hurting them. The...
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Corporate Governance

Who Killed Corporate Reputation?

Regulation and reputation are not independent of each other. Regulation can substitute, crowd out, or even implement the power of reputational concerns. A better understanding...
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Regulatory Capture

Do Courts Have a Pro-Business Bias?

Existing evidence are not enough to determine whether courts are pro-market or pro-(incumbent)business. President Obama’s plan to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court...
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Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance Externalities: How Directors’ Reputational Concerns Shape Governance of Other Firms

A new paper by Wharton’s Doron Levit and Carroll’s Nadya Malenko fleshes out the role that reputation plays in shaping the structure and effectiveness of...
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Antitrust and Competition

George Stigler on Henry Simons, “Crown Prince” of the Chicago School

George Stigler
To mark 75 years since the passing of Henry Simons, professor of Economics and Law at the University of Chicago, ProMarket is...
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Commentary

Electoral College Reform: New Problems or Real Solutions?

Laurent Bouton, Micael Castanheira, Garance Genicot
Each electoral system creates specific incentives to (mis)allocate government resources. Would putting the National Popular Vote (NPV) in lieu of the Electoral...
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Antitrust and Competition

When Do Users Benefit From Platform Mergers?

Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong, Andrey Fradkin
A new paper shows that platform mergers can harness network effects at the cost of reducing the platform differentiation that users value. 
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Economic History Series

Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner Understood That Competition Regulates Markets

Peter J. Boettke, Rosolino A. Candela
Economists Harold Demsetz and Israel Kirzner challenged the prevailing orthodoxy in microeconomic analysis and public policy beginning with their respective work in...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in US Health Care Markets

Leemore Dafny
Harvard Business School professor Leemore Dafny lays out potential reforms to assist agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and to preserve...
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Antitrust and Competition

Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?

Manav Raj
A new paper finds that when interparty competition in state legislatures is high, well-connected and influential incumbent firms are best able to...
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Corporate Governance

No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data

Jens Frankenreiter, Cathy Hwang, Yaron Nili, Eric Talley
Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance....
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