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Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows.
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Covid-19, TikTok, and Milton Friedman: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2020

ProMarket writers
As 2020 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.
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Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel

Joshua Gottlieb
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses travel longer distances, and...
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Angus Deaton: “There’s Something Clearly Wrong With Our Corporate System, in Which Pharmaceutical Companies Are Allowed to Kill People for Money”

Asher Schechter
In an interview with ProMarket, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton outlined what he believes the incoming Biden administration should do: introduce price...
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Managing the Covid-19 Pandemic: Good Health Policy Is Good Economic Policy

Flavio Toxvaerd
Many economists object to framing the response to the Covid-19 pandemic as choosing between health and wealth. Health protection and wealth creation...
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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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The Covid-19 Vaccine is Nearly Here. The Question is: Will People Take It?

Barry Eichengreen, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Orkun Saka
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

Covid-19 Is Reducing Americans’ Confidence Across Institutions

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
Latest US household survey findings reveal that the Covid-19 crisis caused a sharp reduction in Americans’ confidence in institutions—whether or not they...
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Defying Expectations, Bankruptcy Filings Are Down During the Covid-19 Crisis So Far

Jialan Wang, Jeyul Yang, Ben Iverson, Raymond Kluender
Historically, bankruptcy filings have closely tracked the business cycle and unemployment rates. However, a recent study found that this relationship has reversed...
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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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Antitrust and Competition

“An Offer We Can’t Refuse”: How We Gave Away Our Data and Made Big Tech What It Is Today

Tommaso Valletti
WhatsApp’s new terms of service should come as no surprise. For years, Big Tech has been offering its users these “take it...
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Antitrust and Competition

Paul Romer: “If You Think Moderation is Censorship, You’ve Got a Competition Problem”

Jana Kasperkevic
During a Stigler Center keynote webinar, Nobel laureate Paul Romer discussed concentration problems in the US and possible solutions, including a “pigouvian”...
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Digital Platforms

The “Next Frontier of Propaganda”: Micro-Influencers are Paid to Spread Political Messages, Disinformation

Jana Kasperkevic
Online influencers aren’t in the business of promoting just products anymore. New research finds that micro-influencers are increasingly used to spread political...
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Antitrust and Competition

Digital Markets Act: Policy Choices and Conditions for Success

Alexandre de Streel
Last month, the European Commission introduced an ambitious new set of rules for digital platforms, the Digital Markets Act. Here is what...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Silent Coup

Luigi Zingales
President Donald Trump's seditious actions are exposing the political power that Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook enjoy. Banning him from their...
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Antitrust and Competition

How Will the Digital Markets Act Regulate Big Tech?

Cristina Caffarra, Fiona Scott Morton
While the recently introduced Digital Markets Act rules might change prior to final approval, there is a lot to consider already. What...
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Coronavirus

Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows.
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