Coronavirus

“Stop Looking for a Post-Covid Intellectual, We Have Found One”: Le Point Profiles Luigi Zingales

Writer and entrepreneur Mathieu Laine wrote an extensive profile of Luigi Zingales for the French magazine Le Point. They discussed the pandemic,...

How to Save 40 percent of the Payroll Protection Program’s Costs

Thanks to the loan program part of the CARES Act, small businesses can receive up to 2.5 times their monthly payroll, regardless of how much...

Back to Work? The Political Preparation for “Phase 2” of the Pandemic Is a Matter of Trust

According to a special wave of the Booth/Kellogg Financial Trust Index, Americans have bought into social distancing rules. However, most of the respondents are...

The Coronavirus Crisis Has Exposed Private Equity’s Unsustainable Business Model

Private equity portfolio companies are heavily indebted, and they aren’t generating enough cash to service debts. The steady increase in asset values...

Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Mental Health, Privacy, and Machine Learning

Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean. Happy Saturday, or whatever day it is....

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

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...

How Has the Covid-19 Crisis Affected Hourly Workers at Small Businesses?

Since the coronavirus crisis began, firms have dramatically reduced employee hours. By March 28, total hours declined over 70 percent in states with the...

During a Pandemic, Beware the Man of One Model

"I have great respect for the scientific model builders who attempt at quantifying the uncertainty we face and those policy advisors who are willing to accept differences...

The Cantillon Effect: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don’t

According to the 18th-century French banker and philosopher Richard Cantillon, who benefits when the state prints money is based on its institutional setup. In...

Election Timetabling Is Not the Role of Judges

As wrong as it is that the Wisconsin elections were held under patently unsafe conditions, it is not the place of the courts to...

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What Comes Next for Economic Policies to Combat Covid-19? A Conversation Between Six Booth Faculty

Stefano Feltri

As the Covid-19 crisis evolves from a temporary shock into what seems like a long-term catastrophe, six finance scholars from Chicago Booth—Douglas...

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A New Stigler Center Case Study Explores the Link Between Italy’s Morandi Bridge Disaster and Crony Capitalism

Stefano Feltri

Two years ago, the Morandi bridge collapse claimed 43 lives. Based on financial statements, Italian government documents, and interviews with independent experts...

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Few Bad Apples? New Study Finds That 40 Percent of Officers in a Large Police Force Are Discriminatory

Felipe Goncalves, Steven Mello

A new paper seeks to examine whether police misbehavior is concentrated or diffuse by identifying whether highway patrol officers in Florida are...

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Bethany McLean’s Weekend Reading List: Wirecard, Shale Oil, and the Fall of Chuck E. Cheese

Bethany McLean

Corruption, lobbying, corporate malfeasance, and frauds: a weekly unconventional selection of must-read articles by investigative journalist Bethany McLean.

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Should Small Businesses Consider Bankruptcy? A New Capitalisn’t Reading List

ProMarket writers

The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll on most businesses, but it has been especially hard on small businesses. Should those businesses...