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Antitrust and Competition

Regulators Turn Their Attention Towards Apple’s Exploitation of App Developers. Now What?

Congress could level the playing field for independent app developers by looking to regulatory templates in music.
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Antitrust and Competition

At the Heart of the European Commission’s Investigations of Apple Is a Basic Question: How Should Apple Make Money?

Just like Spotify, Apple has amassed an installed base of users. Spotify sells its users to advertisers while Apple sells its users...
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What is the Connection Between Collective Bargaining and Police Officer Misconduct? Evidence from Florida

A working paper finds that after sheriffs’ deputies in Florida were allowed to unionize, violent incidents increased by 40 percent.
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Antitrust and Competition

When Scholarship Turns Into Business: Stefano Feltri Responds to Paul Milgrom

Stefano Feltri responds to Paul Milgrom’s criticisms of his recent ProMarket piece on the 2017 FCC spectrum auction.
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Capitalisn't

Should We Defund the Police? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

In this episode of the Capitalisn't podcast, Kate and Luigi take an economist's look at the concept of defunding the police.
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Mortgages, Rents, and Hamilton

Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Antitrust and Competition

Should We Leave Public Resource Allocation to the Experts? Glen Weyl Responds to Paul Milgrom

Glen Weyl, Microsoft’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer Political Economist and Social Technologist, responds to Paul Milgrom’s criticisms of his recent...
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Antitrust and Competition

Was the 2017 FCC Spectrum Auction a Success—or a Disappointing Failure?

In a post published on his company’s website, Stanford professor Paul Milgrom responded to the recent ProMarket pieces by Glen Weyl and...
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COMMENTARIES

How to Get Police Reform Done? Use Direct Democracy

Instead of just imploring their representatives to fix things, Americans can use the tools of direct democracy to take charge and promote...
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Coronavirus

Revenge of the Experts: Will Covid-19 Diminish Trust in Science and Scientists?

It is often argued that the Covid-19 pandemic will reverse the ongoing trend of diminishing trust in science and scientists. A new...
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Can Covid-19 Erode Young Individuals’ Trust in Politics for Decades to Come?

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Barry Eichengreen, Orkun Saka
A new study shows that exposure to an epidemic during one's “impressionable years” (18-25) has a persistent negative effect on trust in...
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Antitrust and Competition

The United States: An Exceptional Case? A Webinar With Stephen Haber, Richard R. John, and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Many see the US as a land where free markets and antitrust enforcement have historically kept monopolies under control. But is that...
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COMMENTARIES

Bethany McLean’s Fourth of July Weekend Reading List: Jeff Bezos, Homeschooling, and How to Make Capitalism Work for All

Bethany McLean
Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. 
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Coronavirus

Lifting Lockdown Measures Won’t Bring Back Lost Jobs, New Study Suggests

Yongseok Shin
A new paper examines data on local outbreaks in South Korea and finds that even in the absence of lockdowns, an increase...
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Bailout

What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty

Stefano Feltri
As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...
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A New Stigler Center Case Study Explores the Link Between Italy’s Morandi Bridge Disaster and Crony Capitalism

Stefano Feltri
Two years ago, the Morandi bridge collapse claimed 43 lives. Based on financial statements, Italian government documents, and interviews with independent experts...
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Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory

Felipe Goncalves, Steven Mello
A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are...
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