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The Equitable Economy

Antitrust and Competition

Antitrust as Economic Stimulus

Hal Singer
By attacking power imbalances, competition policy can steer income to workers and independent merchants who are more inclined to spend than monopoly platforms.  When the...
Income Inequality

To Make a Difference, Businesses Must Have a Stake in Social Missions

Ofer Eldar
Despite their promises to change the world for the better and remedy social ills, the truth is that corporations are rarely designed to solve...
Income Inequality

A $2.5 Trillion Question: What If Incomes Grew Like GDP Did?

Kathryn Edwards
Per capita GDP in the US grew 118 percent over the past 43 years. At the bottom 25th percentile, real income for full-time, full-year,...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Does a CEO Have a Duty to Lobby?

Luigi Zingales
We need not only more disclosure, but also more work in alerting people in general (and students in particular) about the distortive effects of...
Commentary

Should Whistleblower Reward Laws be Capped?

Stephen M. Kohn
The SEC is expected to approve a proposed rule change that could limit the amount of awards paid to whistleblowers, despite evidence that shows...
Income Inequality

The Economic Costs of Discriminating Against Top Talent: Insights From Nazi Germany

Kilian Huber
A new study looks at the discrimination of Jewish managers in Germany in the 1930s and shows how the rise of a discriminatory ideology...
Antitrust and Competition

Monopolies: Silent Spreaders of Poverty and Economic Inequality

James A. Schmitz Jr.
The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the vast inequalities that exist within the US economy. Monopoly power should be at the top of policymakers’ list...
Antitrust and Competition

The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing

Hal Singer
In his new book Monopolized, journalist David Dayen tells the stories of individuals who have suffered at the hands of monopolists, showing the myriad...
Income Inequality

Police Stops of Black Drivers Increase Following Trump Rallies, New Study Suggests 

Pauline Grosjean
A new study looks into how Trump's 2016 presidential campaign affected police behavior toward Black Americans and finds that the probability that a Black...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

How Hedge Fund Performance Fees Fail Investors

Itzhak Ben-David
In the hedge fund industry, there is a material disconnect between funds’ lifetime performance and lifetime incentive fees for managers. A new study analyzes...
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