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The Equitable Economy

Income Inequality

How to Even Out the Pains and Gains from International Trade

Michael E. Waugh
The idea of creating transfer schemes to compensate the losers from international trade yet still preserve some of the gains faces a myriad of...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Corporate Auditing Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It

Karthik Ramanna
The ostensive watchdogs of market disclosure have become poster boys for corporate chicanery, argues Karthik Ramanna of Oxford’s Blavatnik School.     Auditors are in the business of...
Income Inequality

When Social Policy Saves Lives: Analyzing Trends in Mortality Inequality in the United States and France

Hannes Schwandt
Understanding how inequalities in health and inequalities in income are connected is key for policymaking. New research analyzing mortality trends in the United States...
Commentary

The World Cup of Fraud

Steven A. Bank
Scandal-rocked FIFA has sought to scrub up its image by bringing in ostensibly disinterested outsiders to fill oversight roles. Here, Steven A. Bank argues...
Income Inequality

How US Voters React to Immigration in the Voting Booth May Depend on Both Immigrants’ and Native Residents’ Skill Levels

Anna Maria Mayda
A new working paper has revealed two strikingly divergent correlations between increases in high-skilled and low-skilled immigration and change in Republican vote share since...
Income Inequality

Gabriel Zucman: “Some People in Economics Feel That Talking About Inequality Is Not What Economists Should Be Doing"

Samantha Eyler-Driscoll
The rising scholar of taxation and inequality talks to ProMarket about the problems excessive economic power poses for open political systems, how states can...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Depositors Disciplining Banks: The Impact of Scandals

Mikael Homanen
Can depositor activism make a real difference? New research set to be presented at the upcoming Stigler Center Political Economy of Finance conference examines the Dakota...
Income Inequality

Education Quality Has Less to Do with Adult Outcomes Than You Might Think

Jesse Rothstein
A new paper assesses the contributions of education and labor markets to differences across regional labor markets in the United States and finds that differences in access to...
Income Inequality

Excessive Zoning Makes Us Poorer and More Unequal

Brink Lindsey
We normally think of income inequality as a function of differences in class or socioeconomic status. But much more than generally realized, geographic differences...
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Do Firms Use Capital and Labor Efficiently? Evidence and Implications of Resource Misallocation

Simone Lenzu
Economists have for a decade or so theorized that moving productive inputs like labor and capital into the firms that make the best use...
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