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Antitrust and Competition

How Private Equity Companies Are Lobbying to Profit from The Covid-19 Economic Fallout

Matt Stoller
Private equity funds aren’t just seeking to save the investments they already have, but to get access to more capital to invest in a...
Covid-19

“The Way Insurance Companies Have Rigged Our Health Care System, They’re Probably Going to Emerge as Financial Winners from This”

Asher Schechter
Author and former health insurance executive Wendell Potter explains to ProMarket why the employer-based health care system in the US is “collapsing” and why health...
Antitrust and Competition

The Darkest Side of Monopsony: The South Korean Case

Sangin Park
"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...
Covid-19

How the Covid-19 Pandemic Will Affect Four Types of Labor

Branko Milanovic
A tremendous shock like that of the coronavirus totally unbalances new demand for four different types of labor. The category policymakers should be...
Antitrust and Competition

The Stimulus Package Is Too Expensive and Poorly Targeted: The Waste Contained in the CARES Act

Amit Seru
A cost-effective stimulus to mend the effects of a 24 percent drop in GDP would cost no more than $1.3 trillion over a 6-month...
Antitrust and Competition

America’s Broken Health Care System Is the Biggest Obstacle to Containing the Coronavirus

Asher Schechter
Over the past few weeks, it has become abundantly clear that the US health care system is uniquely ill-equipped to deal with a crisis...
Commentary

How to Interpret Financial Market Movements to Predict the Impact of Coronavirus on GDP

Ralph S.J. Koijen 
Equity markets in the EU and US dropped by as much as 30 percent, which means that investors have revised downward their estimate of...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

“Monetary Awards Are Not the Only Reason Why Whistleblowers Report Corporate Malpractice”

Stefano Feltri
At the SEC, Jordan Thomas had a leadership role in developing the program to protect and reward employees who report corporate wrongdoing. Now, he is...
Antitrust and Competition

Elon Musk Wants to Get Paid. He Will Get His 2019 Bonus Thanks to an Accounting Magic

Francine McKenna
In March 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors granted Musk a potential bonus of 20,264,042 stock option awards under a  plan that uses “adjusted EBITDA” as one...
Antitrust and Competition

How US Regulators Allowed Google and Facebook to Become Dominant

Filippo Lancieri
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority recently criticized Google and Facebook's excessive market power. American regulators, on the other hand, have allowed them to consolidate...
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