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Should We Regulate the Revolving Door of Regulators?

Elise S. Brezis
Is the revolving door of top regulators one of the reasons for a lack of good regulation? Based on her recent research, Elise Brezis...
Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust Needs Better Models for Estimating Social Welfare in the Digital Age

Seth G. Benzell
In a forthcoming article, Seth Benzell and Felix Chang explore how antitrust regulators can use insights from a new quantitative model of Facebook that...
Regulation

Destabilizing Digital “Bank Walks”

Naz Koont
Bank regulators have always assumed that bank deposits are ‘sticky,’ but the advent of digital banking is changing that. New research focuses not on...
Regulation

Electricity Markets Must Liberalize if We Are To Decarbonize Energy

Matteo Romagnoli
In new research, Matteo Romagnoli argues that for the electricity sector to decarbonize as part of the broader green transition, regulators must liberalize markets...
Health Care

Rethinking How To Achieve Universal Health Care Coverage in the US

Katherine Baicker
Solutions to expanding heath care coverage in the U.S. are often incremental and focus on mitigating market failures. In new research, Katherine Baicker, Amitabh...
Development

Mobile Internet Is Changing Employment in Developing Countries, but Not Always as Expected

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
Scholars and policymakers have put much faith into the prospect of internet connectivity catalyzing development in low- and middle-income countries. In new research, Pinelopi...
Monetary Policy

The Fed and Bank Failures

Raghuram Rajan
Viral Acharya and Raghuram Rajan explain how quantitative easing contributed to the problems underlying the recent bank failures such as that of Silicon Valley...
Antitrust and Competition

Self-Preferencing Theories Need To Account for Exploitative Abuse

Patrice Bougette
Patrice Bougette, Oliver Budzinski, and Frédéric Marty argue in their research that antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic must take into consideration...
Antitrust and Competition

Startup Acquisitions Have Undecided Effects on Innovation and Economic Growth

Christian Fons-Rosen
Startups are a major driver of innovation, but many startups are acquired by large incumbents. Do these acquisitions stifle innovation or promote it? While...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

History Shows that Voluntary ESG Standards Lead to a More Focused ESG Disclosure

Ethan Rouen
In recent years, ESG reports have become more common for publicly traded companies. However, critics have found the information they provide to be inconsistent...
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