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Money in Politics

Healthcare Companies Spent More on Lobbying Than Any Other Industry Last Year

Brooke Fox
Threatened by regulated price caps from congress, the pharmaceutical industry spent nearly $390 million on lobbying in 2021 according to new data from OpenSecrets. Healthcare...
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The Mechanisms of Regulatory Capture

Filippo Lancieri
To mark the 50-year anniversary of George Stigler’s seminal piece, “The Theory of Economic Regulation” we are publishing a new eBook examining his theory’s...
Money in Politics

Characteristics and Behavior of the Rising Class of Small Campaign Donors

Laurent Bouton
New research on US political donations under $200 reveals characteristics of these donors as well as their motivations. A  Q&A with the authors of...
News

Fear of Punishment Distorts Bank Financial Reporting

Hamid Mehran
When bank employees are afraid of punishment from regulators, they are likely to conceal information about their faulty decisions. This in turn distorts the...
News

Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote

Hal Weitzman
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us All, published...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Are “Bankruptcy Directors” Bad for Creditors?

Jared Ellias
A new paper studies the rise of so-called “bankruptcy directors,” typically former bankruptcy lawyers, investment bankers, or distressed debt traders who join corporate boards...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How the US Partisan Divide Shapes Global Capital Flows

Elisabeth Kempf
A new empirical paper explores how partisan perception affects capital allocation beyond national borders, showing that the global investment practices of US institutional investors...
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Why Financial Regulations Might Fail to Produce Their Desired Outcome: The Case of the Capital Conservation Buffer

Hamid Mehran
The capital conservation buffer (CCB) was created after the 2008 financial crisis, instructing banks to retain their dividends in an escrow account and create a...
Antitrust and Competition

Big Tech, the FTC, and Ordoliberals: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2021

ProMarket writers
As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year. In a year marked by a...
Antitrust and Competition

The Best Political Economy Books of 2021

Asher Schechter
A scholarly examination of market’s power toll on American workers, the collected works of a pioneering economic thinker, an ambitious narrative of US economic...
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