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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.

Coronavirus

Why Social Distancing Measures Seem Less Effective in the US

Gabriele Borg, Samuele Giambra, Samsun Knight

Guidelines assume that the less people move around, the less likely they are to be in contact. However, phone location data show...

Coronavirus

How Are Americans Coping With the Covid-19 Crisis? 7 Key Findings From a Household Survey

Marianne Bertrand, Guglielmo Briscese, Maddalena Grignani

New research from the Rustandy Center and the Poverty Lab at the University of Chicago finds that lower-income Americans, especially women,...

RESEARCH

How to Restart the Economy and Save Lives: Simulations on Northern Italy

Carlo Favero, Andrea Ichino, Aldo Rustichini

Italian officials have to choose the optimal strategy to end the lockdown. A policy that sends all the active population back to...

Coronavirus

Insider Trading Data Reveals Pandemic Is a Time for Questioning, Not Answering

Renée Adams, Attila Balogh

Following news reports about executives selling shares in their corporations to avoid losses due to the pandemic, a new study takes a...

Coronavirus

How Inequality Hurts the Economy and Complicates Policy Responses to the Pandemic

Atif Mian, Amir Sufi, Ludwig Straub

In the years leading up to the pandemic, rising inequality created a saving glut of the rich which pushed down interest rates...

Inequality

Inequality Has Increased Far Less Than You Think (If You Consider Social Security Benefits)

Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, Natasha Sarin

In the United States, Social Security accounts for nearly 60 percent of the total wealth of the bottom 90 percent. Once Social Security is...

Coronavirus

Covid Economics: The Marcoeconomic Impact of the Pandemic and Policy Responses

Joost Sijthoff

ProMarket reviews the most recent and interesting academic papers on the ongoing pandemic: One paper argues that people do not always fully internalize the...

Coronavirus

From Borrowing to Stockpiling: How The Virus Outbreak Changed American Household Consumption

Scott R. Baker, Constantine Yannelis, Steffen Meyer, Michael Pagel, R. A. R. A. Farrokhnia

The first academic study of American consumers' reaction to the pandemic finds that total spending rose by half between February 26 and March 11,...

Coronavirus

Managing Expectations Is Critical to Ensure Compliance with Stay-at-Home Measures

Mario Macis, Guglielmo Briscese, Nicola Lacetera, Mirco Tonin

A study of a representative sample of Italians finds that 50 percent of respondents reported having adopted all recommended actions, including staying at home,...

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Reversing the “Resource Curse” with Foreign Corruption Regulation

Thomas Rauter

Anti-corruption regulation originating in developed countries is effective in changing corporate behavior and has a positive economic impact on developing countries.

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