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The Economic and Social Implications of Racial Disparities: A Webinar With Lisa Cook

Michigan State University professor Lisa Cook joined Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance to discuss how violence impacts innovation, as well as the...
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COMMENTARIES

Why Economic Predictions Are Useless Right Now

The Covid-19 crisis is unprecedented in its global scope and open-ended, uncontrollable progress. By their very nature, the models that economists often...
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Antitrust and Competition

Covid-19 and Amazon’s Future: a Webinar With Stacy Mitchell, Steven Kaplan, and Jacob Schlesinger

As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of...
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Coronavirus

How Were the PPP’s $660 Billion for Small and Medium Firms Allocated?

A new study suggests that the Payroll Protection Program's funds were primarily allocated based on 2019’s estimated payroll, which is how the...
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Coronavirus

When and How the US Should Reopen Is a Matter of Politics, Trust in Institutions and Media, Survey Says

A new survey from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that political party affiliation and...
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Coronavirus

Why Social Distancing Measures Seem Less Effective in the US

Guidelines assume that the less people move around, the less likely they are to be in contact. However, phone location data show...
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Antitrust and Competition

Amazon-Owned Movie Theaters: the Next Step in Entertainment Industry Consolidation

Amazon is in talks to buy AMC Theaters, whose business model was jeopardized by the coronavirus pandemic. Other streaming companies, such as...
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Coronavirus

Capital and Ideology: a Webinar With Thomas Piketty, Robert Topel, and Edward Luce

As part of the Stigler Center’s Political Economy of Covid-19 Series of online programming, which explores the economic and political implications of...
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Coronavirus

After the Lockdown: Italian Consumers Are Cautious About Returning to Normal

The effects of reopening commercial and recreational activities depend not only on legislative provisions but also on the propensity of consumers to...
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Bailout

The Childcare Barriers to Putting America Back to Work

Substantial fractions of the US labor force have children at home and will likely face obstacles in returning to work if childcare...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing

Hal Singer
In his new book Monopolized, journalist David Dayen tells the stories of individuals who have suffered at the hands of monopolists, showing...
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News

Special Interests Hide Behind Regulatory Myths

Casey B. Mulligan
Three myths about federal regulation help prevent much of the public, and many experts, from realizing how many regulations serve to promote...
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Coronavirus

The Persuasive Effect of Fox News: How Increases in Fox News Viewership Reduced Compliance With Social Distancing Guidelines

Jean-Pierre Dubé, Andrey Simonov, Szymon Sacher, Shirsho Biswas
Using zip-code level data on Fox News viewership and individual cellphone movement data, a recent study finds that increasing the local viewership...
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Eastman Kodak, Private Equity Hospitals, and America’s First Female Recession

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

Tech Monopolies Are the Reason the US Now Has a TikTok Problem

Lucas Kunce
Tech platforms like Facebook say we should protect, empower, and celebrate their concentrated power for the sake of America’s national security. But...
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Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean, Federico Masera, Hasin Yousaf
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that...
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Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech Is Officially Too Big to Manage

Shaoul Sussman
Last week’s Congressional hearing on Big Tech showed the CEOs of the four largest tech platforms unable to answer basic questions about...
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