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Regulatory Capture

Self-Regulation and the Video Game Industry: A New Stigler Center Case Study

ProMarket writers
A new Stigler Center case study explores questions surrounding the ESRB, the self-regulatory body responsible for assigning age and content ratings to video games.  The debate...
Regulatory Capture

Schumpeter and Brexit: Same Old Story, Different Ending

Natasha Piano
Joseph Schumpeter wouldn’t have been surprised by Brexit, but would blame British elites for putting it to a referendum and then walking away from the...
Academic Capture

“Economics Now Points Away From the Laissez-Faire Approach”

Asher Schechter
Columbia professor Suresh Naidu on Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, the new initiative he launched with Dani Rodrik and Gabriel Zucman, and why he believes...
Antitrust and Competition

The Anticompetitive Effects of Current Capital Regulation

Matteo Benetton
Some features of the capital regulation that was designed to increase the safety of the financial system may have unintended consequences on the competitive...
Antitrust and Competition

Regulators Should Not Change the Regulatory Environment to Include Labor Market Concentration

Ben Lipsius
Research has shown that labor markets with higher levels of labor market concentration have lower wages. It does not necessarily follow that regulators should...
Media

“Emmanuel Macron Is Not a Liberal, He Just Pretends to Be”

Guy Rolnik
The French president found himself under fire following an attempted police raid on the offices of the investigative news site Mediapart. While many around...
Antitrust and Competition

When the Interests of Monopolists and Authoritarians Coalesce

Raghuram Rajan
It is when the behemoth of monopoly enterprise consorts with the leviathan of the authoritarian state that both are likely to achieve permanence, writes...
Media

The News Media’s Business Model of Extortion

Guy Rolnik
The Jeff Bezos vs. The National Enquirer scandal highlights the role that extortion may play in the business model of some news outlets.  Jeff Bezos’s...
Money in Politics

Public Trust in Government Falls as Government Shutdown Continues

Linda Wu
Amid the longest government shutdown in US history, and with no light at the end of the tunnel, the latest Financial Trust Index (FTI)...
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook, Extreme Inequality, and Globalization: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2018

ProMarket writers
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.     The early mentor to Mark...
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