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Big Tech

Zero Rating Is The Free Sample In The Internet Ice Cream Store

Roslyn Layton
Why ban competitive offers in the online world when they’re allowed offline? Big tech wants plain vanilla broadband pricing because it forecloses platform competition.
Big Tech

How Big Tech Uses Net Neutrality To Subvert Competition

Roslyn Layton
A decade of evidence suggests that Open Internet policies have delivered the opposite effect.
Academic Capture

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks at #EconTwitter

Nicolás Ajzenman
In a field experiment conducted with economists on Twitter, the authors find that users who are identifiable as white, women, and PhD students affiliated with “top-ten” universities are more likely to receive follow-backs.
Academic Capture

Waning Academic Freedom Curtails Innovation

David Audretsch
In new research, David Audretsch, Christian Fisch, Chiara Franzoni, Paul P. Momtaz, and Silvio Vismara find that the decline of academic freedom over the last decade has had a deleterious impact on innovation, as measured by the quantity and quality of new patents.
Money in Politics

Foreign Influence Benefits Foreign Firms and Governments but the Benefits to Americans Are Less Decided

Marco Grotteria
In new research, Marco Grotteria, Max Miller, and S Lakshmi Naaraayanan create and analyze a dataset of more than 12,000 FARA filings to investigate the drivers and outcomes of foreign lobbying of U.S. legislators. Their findings can help inform new laws and regulations that improve government transparency and prevent the more nefarious effects of foreign lobbying.
Money in Politics

Carl Schmitt and the Origins of Friedrich Hayek’s Thought on Rent-Seeking

Daniel Nientiedt
Friedrich Hayek viewed the subject of rent-seeking not from the usual welfare economics perspective, but from a constitutional economics perspective. In a new paper,...
Money in Politics

Defense Contracts Are Going to the Best Connected, Not Necessarily the Best

Şenay Ağca
In new research, Şenay Ağca and Deniz Igan use the shock of the September 11 attacks and declaration of war on Afghanistan to show...
News

Should We Regulate the Revolving Door of Regulators?

Elise S. Brezis
Is the revolving door of top regulators one of the reasons for a lack of good regulation? Based on her recent research, Elise Brezis...
Commentary

Corporate Political Responsibility in a Captured Economy

Claudine Schneider
Most attention on corporate governance has focused on businesses’ social responsibility. Claudine Schneider and Ed Dolan write that businesses need to take into account...
Commentary

A Directorship at a Federal Reserve Bank is Good News for Banks, but May be Bad News for the Fed

Renée Adams
Far before the collapse of SVB, I provided systematic evidence that banks appear to benefit from their directorships on Federal Reserve Banks. The fact...
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