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Antitrust and Competition

Opening the Black Box: The Hidden Costs of Data-Driven Mergers in Health Care

Theodosia Stavroulaki

Vertical data-driven mergers between health insurers and drug suppliers may facilitate health insurers’ efforts to discriminate against vulnerable populations, leaving them without...

Inequality

Most Americans Consider Themselves Middle-Class. But Are They?

Jeffrey Wenger, Melanie Zaber

There are different ways of determining who should be considered middle-class. But there is one thing they have in common: all reveal...

Antitrust and Competition

Barriers to Entry as Another Source of Top Income Inequality

Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, Simon Bunel

A new book, The Power of Creative Destruction, explores how lobbying contributes to the increase in the top 1 percent’s share of...

Media

ProMarket Reader Survey: We Want Your Feedback

ProMarket writers

As ProMarket enters its sixth year of operation, we would like to understand what you, our readers, like about it and what...

Corporate Governance

What Stakeholder Capitalism Can Learn From Jensen and Meckling

Alex Edmans

Jensen and Meckling’s 1976 article is an academic classic, but heavily criticized by stakeholder capitalists for arguing that corporate structures should be...

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