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The Political Impact of the Pandemic on Open Societies: a Webinar With Tyler Cowen

ProMarket writers
Princeton professor Markus Brunnermeier and professor and blogger Tyler Cowen discuss the long-term implications of lockdown and contact tracing measures. "People at first grossly...
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Coronavirus

Europe’s Last Call, China’s PR, and a New Role for the State: a Conversation Between Luis Garicano and Luigi Zingales

ProMarket writers
Former academic and current Member of European Parliament Luis Garicano and Luigi Zingales discuss the future of the European Union and of its member...
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Capitalisn't

A New Capitalisn’t Episode: How to Exit the Covid-19 Quarantine – a Reading List

ProMarket writers
For the good of public health, it's important that we continue staying in quarantine, at least for another month or two. But eventually, we...
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Coronavirus

Deaths of Despair and Covid-19: a Webinar With Angus Deaton and Luigi Zingales

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Deaths of despair are a slow disintegration of working-class lives: Will the coronavirus accelerate this process? In a conversion with Luigi Zingales, Nobel laureate...
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Coronavirus

Covid-19, Central Banks, and Debt Monetization: a Webinar With Olivier Blanchard

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Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and former IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard discuss the impact of the current global health crisis on public finances and policy...
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Coronavirus

How and When to Restart the Economy: a Webinar with Nobel Laureate Paul Romer

ProMarket writers
Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Nobel laureate economist Paul Romer explore what options we have to stop the pandemic and recover economic activities. Is...
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Antitrust and Competition

America’s Concentration Problem: a Webinar With Thomas Philippon, Chad Syverson, and Guy Rolnik

ProMarket writers
Watch a Stigler Center webinar with NYU professor Thomas Philippon and Chicago Booth professor Chad Syverson on Philippon’s new book, The Great Reversal: How...
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Coronavirus

Is Monetary Policy Independence Out of Date? A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 3)

ProMarket writers
The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
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Coronavirus

Constitutional Limits to Independent Agencies and Central Banks: A Mini-Course With Paul Tucker (Part 2)

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The Federal Reserve and the ECB have been taking unprecedented steps to react to the financial impact of Covid-19. To frame the debate around the...
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Coronavirus

How Human and Institutional Behavior Change in the Context of Pandemics: a Webinar

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Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier and Ramanan Laxminarayan, director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, discuss the economics of pandemics. From the bubonic plague to...
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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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COMMENTARIES

The Death of Hong Kong’s Rule of Law

Benny Tai
Hong Kong's rule of law has suffered a fatal blow. With the national security law, the authoritarian regime has all that it...
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President-Elect Joe Biden and the Real Lessons of DuPont

Guy Rolnik, Roy Shapira
Simply talking corporate America into being more responsible is not enough. It may get corporations to talk the talk, but not to...
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Corporate Governance

How Companies Spin Off Environmental Liabilities to Avoid Legal Obligations

David F. Larcker, Andrew Baker, Brian Tayan
Environmental externalities are vexing for corporate decision makers, but some companies have figured out a way to deal with them: a spinoff....
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Coronavirus

How Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Demonstrates the Political Power of Firms

John M. Barrios, Luigi Zingales
By timing the disclosure of the results of its vaccine trial, Pfizer could have influenced the 2020 presidential election. This is worrisome...
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Antitrust and Competition

The Useful Distraction of Section 230

David Carroll
How the red-herring of a politicized Section 230 and “conservative censorship” distracts from a bipartisan national privacy act.
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Antitrust and Competition

Institution Man: How Corporations Came to Dominate the US Economy

Nicholas Lemann
In the first chapter of his book Transaction Man, Nicholas Lemann explores how Adolf Berle, author of The Modern Corporation and Private...
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