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How Financial Contracting Could Help the Police Force Manage Its Aims More Effectively

Hamid Mehran
Hamid Mehran proposes funded deferred pay, an incentive structure to mitigate the risk and costs of police misconduct. To be sure, police are doing a...
Culture & Society

How Do Cultural Stereotypes Spread Through Multinational Banks?

Barry Eichengreen
In new research, Barry Eichengreen and Orkun Saka find that trust, shaped by cultural stereotypes, partially determines how multilateral banks decide which countries’ sovereign...
Covid-19

Event Notes: How Will China Move on from the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Utsav Gandhi
Countries around the world have overseen wide-ranging public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 10, the Stigler Center hosted a panel of...
Antitrust and Competition

Researchers Find Reduced Competition After Pandemic

Brooke Fox
The chart of the week comes from a new research paper that documents the increase in small business closures during the Covid pandemic, which...
Covid-19

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Put Corporate Stakeholder Promises to the Test

Lucian Bebchuk
Prior to the outbreak of Covid-19, corporate leaders pledged to look after all stakeholders, not just deliver value to shareholders. Did they live up...
Covid-19

Study: the Covid-19 Eviction Moratoriums Helped Reduce Food Insecurity and Mental Stress

Nitzan Tzur Ilan
A new study investigates the impact of 2020 Covid-19 rental eviction moratoria on the wellbeing of US households, finding that eviction moratoria across the...
Covid-19

Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal

Gabriele Gratton
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to erode democracies...
Covid-19

Challenges to Sound Global Governance for Health

Lawrence O. Gostin
In an excerpt from his new book, Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future, Lawrence O. Gostin examines the challenges and threats to...
Covid-19

The Digital Divide During Epidemics: Who Benefits From New Financial Technologies?

Orkun Saka
A new paper finds that exposure to an epidemic in the current year significantly increases the likelihood that an individual completes financial transactions via...
Big Tech

How Twitter Weakened India’s Information Ecosystem

Prateek Raj
India’s Covid-19 crisis is a reminder that Indian democracy is also in a crisis, partly due to an information ecosystem where facts and criticism...
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