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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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Antitrust and Competition

More and More Employers Are Spying on Workers Online. Federal Regulators Are Okay With It

Robert Sprague
Employers today have numerous tools at their disposal to monitor workers’ behavior and communications. Outdated federal regulations and an administration that prioritizes...
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Coronavirus

How Personal Experiences With Covid-19 Are Changing Americans’ Behaviors and Political Views

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani, Salma Nassar
While strong divisions persist across party lines, personal experiences with Covid-19, such as loss of income, may affect views and preferences among...
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Coronavirus

Tailoring Lockdowns for Developing Countries

Titan Alon, Minki Kim, David Lagakos, Mitchell VanVuren
The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated livelihoods in developing nations, and coronavirus-related deaths are rising in Africa and South Asia at an alarming...
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Coronavirus

Can Covid-19 Erode Young Individuals’ Trust in Politics for Decades to Come?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in...
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Coronavirus

Lifting Lockdown Measures Won’t Bring Back Lost Jobs, New Study Suggests

Yongseok Shin
A new paper examines data on local outbreaks in South Korea and finds that even in the absence of lockdowns, an increase...
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Bailout

What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty

Stefano Feltri
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...
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Capitalisn't

Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses...
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COMMENTARIES

The Pandemic Has Revealed America’s Impatience. But America Will Need Patience in the 2020 Election

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
The proliferation of mail-in voting is likely to make knowing who won the election take much longer than Americans are used to....
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Coronavirus

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new...
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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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