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Academic Capture

Cogs and Monsters: Is Economics Destined to Remain a Dismal Science?

Jana Kasperkevic
In her bold new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Cambridge professor Diane Coyle offers a...
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Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 


Renée Adams
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
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Academic Capture

A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?

Luigi Zingales
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in political finance. Do you have a...
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News

Fracking Can Lead to Elevated Salt Levels in Surface Water, Study Finds

Jana Kasperkevic
A new study finds that fracking can lead to increased salt levels in water surfaces, especially during the early stages of production...
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News

How Interest Groups Utilize Reverse Revolving Doors to Influence Legislative Voting

Miguel Alquézar Yus, Josep Amer Mestre
A new study finds that legislators who worked for interest groups before taking office influence the voting behavior of their colleagues when...
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Antitrust and Competition

What Are They Hiding? What Firms Don’t Want Us to Know About Their Economic Development Incentives

Nathan Jensen, Calvin Thrall
State and local governments offer firms all kinds of incentives in hopes of spurring local economic development. New research finds that a...
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Corporate Governance

“Comments for Sale”: Charitable Donations Can Lead Non-profits to Support Corporate Regulatory Agendas

Marianne Bertrand, Matilde Bombardini, Ray Fisman, Brad Hackinen, Francesco Trebbi
A new paper shows how financial ties between companies and non-profits can subvert rulemaking process and lead to regulations that favor the...
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Money in Politics

The Rise of Business Politicians

Ilona Babenko, Viktar Fedaseyeu, Song Zhang
Over the last two decades, the share of senior corporate executives holding national political office has increased in the United States as...
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Commentary

The Costs of Political Misalignment: Forest Fires and Bank Loans in Turkey

Orkun Saka
Recent wildfires in Turkey have not only destroyed more than 95,000 hectares of its coastal forestland but also divided the country further...
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News

How Unusual is the Recent Boom in Profits and Values of US Listed Corporations?

Dmitry Kuvshinov, Kaspar Zimmermann
In the past decades, the US stock market and business profits have been growing much faster than the rest of the economy....
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Academic Capture

Cogs and Monsters: Is Economics Destined to Remain a Dismal Science?

Jana Kasperkevic
In her bold new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be, Cambridge professor Diane Coyle offers a...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

Is there a “California Effect” in Data Privacy Law? Why the EU is Not the World’s Privacy Cop

Jens Frankenreiter
It is common lore in data privacy law and other fields that stringent regulatory standards (such as the ones introduced in the...
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Coronavirus

Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal

Gabriele Gratton, Barton Lee
A new paper argues that exploitation of gaps within democratic constitutions during emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, has the potential to...
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Corporate Governance

The Social Responsibility of Business Includes Profits

Alex Edmans
Profits these days are often seen as a dirty word, but it is wrong to demonize profits. A company’s responsibility is not...
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Academic Capture

Academic Gatekeepers, Real and Imagined, Are Threatening the Credibility of the Field of Political Finance 


Renée Adams
One objective of political finance is to hold power to account. However, gatekeeping, both direct and indirect, is keeping important work from...
Read more
Academic Capture

A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?

Luigi Zingales
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in political finance. Do you have a...
Read more
Antitrust and Competition

How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power

Charlotte Slaiman
Achieving a truly open internet is only possible through robust online competition free from the control of today’s digital gatekeepers like Facebook...
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