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Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...
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Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

Michael G Jacobides, Ioannis Lianos
Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited....
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Corporate Governance

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...
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Antitrust and Competition

Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?

Jana Kasperkevic
In an interview with ProMarket, Angela Huyue Zhang, author of a new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, discusses the motivations behind the recent...
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Antitrust and Competition

Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards

Rena Conti, Fiona Scott Morton, Adam Kroetsch, Stephen Colvill, Mark Rosenberg
Prescription drug shortages have become more common in recent years, interrupting usual medical care and increasing patient risk and system costs, but...
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Antitrust and Competition

Facebook Break-up Can Be Feasible, Efficient, and Ultimately Beneficial to Consumers

Paolo Buccirossi, Emilio Calvano, Tomaso Duso
Is the relief sought by the FTC in its case against Facebook the right way to go? In principle, yes. However, the...
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Antitrust and Competition

A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets

Nicolas Petit, Natalia Moreno Belloso
Digital markets are prone to “tipping.” Policymakers are starting to look at tipping as a market failure worthy of consideration. But as...
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Corporate Governance

The Most Famous Article on the Theory of the Firm is Widely Misunderstood

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s famous 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article has been cited nearly 100,000 times and is often regarded...
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Coronavirus

The Unequal Toll of Covid-19

Neha Deopa, Piergiuseppe Fortunato
A pandemic is by definition universal but while it is true that the Covid-19 outbreak has affected everyone, it has not done...
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Antitrust and Competition

Revisiting Ohio vs. American Express: It’s Time for a More Nuanced Approach to Market Definition

Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Filippo Maria Lancieri
Nearly three years ago, the Supreme Court decided the case of Ohio vs. American Express, which turned out to be one of...
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Coronavirus

Female Academics Are Disproportionately Affected By Covid-19 Disruptions In Childcare

Tatyana Deryugina, Olga Shurchkov, Jenna Stearns
A new paper finds that academics who are parents to young children, and especially mothers, have lost a significant amount of research...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Rethinking Competition: From Market Failures to Ecosystem Failures

Michael G Jacobides, Ioannis Lianos
Despite the overwhelming importance of digital platforms, and the chatter around their recent rise, our understanding of digital ecosystems is still limited....
Read more
Corporate Governance

A Famed Economist’s Public Company U-Turn

Brian Cheffins
Michael Jensen, a leading late 20th century economist, pivoted from praising public companies in the 1970s to assailing public company governance in...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Chinese Antitrust 2.0: Why Is China Going After Its Big Tech?

Jana Kasperkevic
In an interview with ProMarket, Angela Huyue Zhang, author of a new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism, discusses the motivations behind the recent...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Preventing Drug Shortages and Saving Lives: The Role of Quality and Reliability Standards

Rena Conti, Fiona Scott Morton, Adam Kroetsch, Stephen Colvill, Mark Rosenberg
Prescription drug shortages have become more common in recent years, interrupting usual medical care and increasing patient risk and system costs, but...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Facebook Break-up Can Be Feasible, Efficient, and Ultimately Beneficial to Consumers

Paolo Buccirossi, Emilio Calvano, Tomaso Duso
Is the relief sought by the FTC in its case against Facebook the right way to go? In principle, yes. However, the...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

A Simple Way to Measure Tipping in Digital Markets

Nicolas Petit, Natalia Moreno Belloso
Digital markets are prone to “tipping.” Policymakers are starting to look at tipping as a market failure worthy of consideration. But as...
Read more
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