Research and Papers

Antitrust and Competition

The Darkest Side of Monopsony: The South Korean Case

"Chaebols”, large business groups controlled by founder families, are usually considered a crucial ingredient of South Korea's economic miracle. But after a process of...

Coronavirus

Why More Elderly People Get Infected in Some Countries Compared to Others

Christian Bayer, Moritz Kuhn

Italy has a mortality rate of 6 percent while countries like Norway, Denmark, and Germany have rates still close to zero percent. The...

Academic Capture

Are the Findings in Academic Economic Journals to be Trusted?

Abel Brodeur

A growing number of studies provide evidence that editors (and referees) of academic journals often publish only findings showing a significant effect or surprising...

Academic Capture

The World Bank's "Papergate": Censorship Is Not the Best Way to Stop Development Aid From Fueling Corruption

Stefano Feltri

A new study of World Bank data finds that aid disbursement to highly aid-dependent countries coincides with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore...

Antitrust and Competition

The Real Price of Health Data: Americans Don’t Want to Share Their Records for Free

ProMarket writers

The 2019 Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index survey shows that 93 percent of participants don’t want to share their health data with digital...

Antitrust and Competition

How Allowing a Little Bit of Dissent Helps the Chinese Government Control Social Media

Zhenqi Jessie Liu

A new study on three major social networks in China finds that tolerating small, relatively free platforms helps the Chinese government maintain sufficiently high...

Academic Capture

Data-Driven Ideology: The Problem With Economists' Takeover of Policymaking

Stefano Feltri

According to New York Times journalist Binyamin Appelbaum's recent book The Economists' Hour, economics is not the unbiased science that it pretends to be, but...

Money in Politics

How Do Members of Congress React to the Potential of Lucrative Private Sector Employment?

Benjamin C.K. Egerod

Many fear that the potential for well-paid post-elective jobs can make legislators give rewards to their future employers. A new study finds that career...

Antitrust and Competition

Should We Let Facebook Decide the Next President of the United States?

Stefano Feltri

Facebook admitted that only a binding regulation on political ads could prevent private corporations from influencing the outcome of US presidential elections. Without such...

Regulatory Capture

Who Benefits When State Governments Award Incentives to Politically-Connected Companies?

Allison Koester, Daniel Aobdia, Reining Petacchi

A new study finds that a company is nearly four times more likely to receive an economic incentive in a state where the company...

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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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