Corporate Governance
Stigler Center Talk: Corporate Governance in an Era of Shareholder Activism
The Stigler Center will host a panel on the prevalence of shareholder activism and how to improve corporate oversight on May 3rd.
Shareholder activism has experienced...
ProMarket Interview: Robert J. Shiller on Competition, Deception and Rent-Seeking
Yale economist and Nobel Prize Laureate Robert J. Shiller explains why competition in itself does not always weed out deception and rent-seeking.
“Our free-market system...
ProMarket Graph: Is There a Correlation Between Perception Measures and Reported Levels of Corruption?
New graph compares corruption perception indexes with reported cases of corruption.
What is the best way to measure corruption, and can there be a reliable way to...
“The President’s Executive Order is Pro‑Market and Anti‑Abusive Market Power”
Ten days after the White House issued an executive order and a brief that highlights growing concentration and decreasing competition in the US economy,...
Corporate Governance Externalities: How Directors’ Reputational Concerns Shape Governance of Other Firms
A new paper by Wharton’s Doron Levit and Carroll’s Nadya Malenko fleshes out the role that reputation plays in shaping the structure and effectiveness of...
The US Government Loses As Much As $111 Billion Annually Due to Corporate Tax Dodging
Report: For every dollar spent on lobbying, the 50 largest corporations received more than $4,000 in government support.
The US government is losing as much...
The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative
President Barack Obama issues an executive order that calls on federal government agencies to promote competition within uncompetitive markets.
President Barack Obama launched a broad new...
Stigler Center Talk: Uber and the Future of Work-On-Demand
David Plouffe, board member and Chief Advisor at Uber, is coming to give a talk at the Stigler Center.
Within seven years, Uber has managed...
“It’s Difficult to Produce Good Policy in Thin Political Markets”
Harvard Business School’s Karthik Ramanna, author of Political Standards, outlines the potential harms of thin political markets and offers ways to mitigate capture. “It’s difficult...
Is There a Crisis in the Economic Theory of the Firm? Participants at Harvard Business School Conference Agree: Firms Try to Change the Rules...
A novel conference at Harvard Business School brought together top scholars in order to answer the question: Is Milton Friedman’s dictum that firms that...
