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Antitrust and Competition

“The Antitrust Doctrine We’ve Seen Over the Last 40 Years Simply Does Not Match the Lived Experience of People”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, investigative journalist David Dayen discusses the toll that monopoly power takes on the lives of ordinary Americans...
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Coronavirus

Webinar: Covid-19 and the US Health Care System

ProMarket writers
Political Economy of Covid-19 Series: Watch a Stigler Center conversation between author, journalist, and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter and Chicago Booth...
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Coronavirus

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Asher Schechter
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
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Coronavirus

Option-Based Credit Spreads Signal a Recession, but the US Stimulus Will Soften the Blow

Mihir Gandhi, Pietro Veronesi
Over the past month, option-based credit spreads spiked and remain at elevated levels. The surge signals that a recession is at our door, but...
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Coronavirus

The Case for Lockdown: in Italy’s Lombardy, It Can Reduce Covid-19 Potential Fatalities from 160,000 to 25,000

Carlo Favero
According to an analysis by Bocconi University professor Carlo Favero, the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Lombardy, Northern Italy, is 120,000, while...
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Antitrust and Competition

America’s Broken Health Care System Is the Biggest Obstacle to Containing the Coronavirus

Asher Schechter
Over the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that the US health care system is uniquely ill-equipped to deal with a crisis...
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Coronavirus

Why Mass Testing Is Crucial: the US Should Study the Veneto Model to Fight Covid-19

Luigi Zingales
The Italian experience suggests that locking downtowns is a necessary but insufficient condition to stop the spread of the disease. If 50 percent of...
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Coronavirus

Populism Weakened the Immune System of Our Democracies. Chile Is an Example

Daniel Matamala
Modern societies have developed immune systems to deal with epidemics: international cooperation, social cohesion, universal health care systems. But today we face the greatest...
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Coronavirus

This Is Not the Time to Be Cautious. We Need to Contain the Economic Contagion of the Coronavirus

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
The real danger is that the virus mutates and infects our economic system, even as we manage to root it out of our bodies....
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Antitrust and Competition

Keeping Business Alive During the Coronavirus Crisis: Government as Buyer of Last Resort

Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
The government has to compensate businesses and workers for their losses so that each business can re-emerge almost intact after the hibernation due to...
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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter
Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.
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COMMENTARIES

The Death of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law

Benny Tai
Hong Kong's rule of law has suffered a fatal blow. With the national security law, the authoritarian regime has all that it...
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News

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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