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Covid-19

Why Is All Covid-19 News Bad News?

Bruce Sacerdote
A new paper finds that media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, including vaccine development, tends to be more negative in the US than elsewhere....
Antitrust and Competition

What Is the Price of a Prescription Drug?

Robin Feldman
Due to lack of transparency and mystery rebates, which are considered trade secrets, figuring out the price of a prescription drug is devilishly difficult....
News

The Effects of Student Debt Forgiveness

Marco Di Maggio
While student loan forgiveness is undoubtedly expensive, research suggests that individuals whose debt is forgiven get better jobs, experience higher mobility, and are ultimately...
Antitrust and Competition

Giving Away Our Data for Free is a Market Failure

Nicholas Economides
By convincing users to give away their data for free, digital platforms have caused a market failure. This failure benefits them and harms us,...
Income Inequality

The End of the Capitalist-Worker Dichotomy and the Rise of a New Elite?

Yonatan Berman
Economists typically assume that capitalists and workers are different people. A new study, however, finds that the intersection between the top decile of capital-income...
Big Tech

The “Next Frontier of Propaganda”: Micro-Influencers are Paid to Spread Political Messages, Disinformation

Jana Kasperkevic
Online influencers aren’t in the business of promoting just products anymore. New research finds that micro-influencers are increasingly used to spread political messages and...
Covid-19

Covid-19 Aggravates Existing Income, Gender, and Race Inequalities, and Further Increases Political Divisions

Marianne Bertrand
Seventy percent of Americans know someone who tested positive; one in five know someone who died from coronavirus, survey shows. For most of 2020, we followed...
Antitrust and Competition

Is There Really a Conflict Between Better Corporate Governance and More Competitive Product Markets?

Miguel Antón
A new study shows that the supposed tradeoff between better corporate governance and more competitive product markets may not exist. More commonly-owned firms have...
Antitrust and Competition

The Non-Revolving Door Between the SEC and the Plaintiffs’ Bar

Alexander I. Platt
Nowhere does the “revolving door” spin more quickly than at the Securities and Exchange Commission. But, even at the SEC, not all doors spin...
News

Are Large Institutional Investors Actually Effective in Getting Companies to Reduce Their CO2 Emissions?

José Azar
Large institutional investors have been accused of not doing enough to reduce CO2 emissions. However, a new study finds that firms like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State...
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