Political economy
Higher Educational Attainment Equips Voters To Detect Fake News
Access to the internet and the rise of social media has overloaded voters with information and exposed them to a proliferation of fake news. Using political budget cycles, or the tendency for politicians to increase the budget in run-up to elections to win more votes, as a proxy for misinformation, Fabio Padovano and Pauline Mille show in new research that voters who score higher on the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment and achieve a higher level of education are better able to hold politicians to account.
How Big Tech Uses Net Neutrality To Subvert Competition
A decade of evidence suggests that Open Internet policies have delivered the opposite effect.
How Much Do Investors Care About Social Responsibility?
Study participants are less likely to accept lower returns in support of social goals when acting as investors versus consumers or donors with a third accepting no reduction in returns. Additionally, those with higher income, women and Democrats were willing to accept lower return in support of social goals than those with lower income, men, Republicans and Independents.
Defense Contracts Are Going to the Best Connected, Not Necessarily the Best
In new research, Şenay Ağca and Deniz Igan use the shock of the September 11 attacks and declaration of war on Afghanistan to show...
Defer Bank Management’s Compensation for Times of Crisis
Adopting a deferred pay scheme for bank managers would provide them with needed funding during a downturn and would incentivize more conservativism when it comes to risk-taking.
Children of Workers Impacted by Automation Are More Likely To Experience Lower Income Mobility
A new empirical study examines whether advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. The authors find that parents’ exposure to new...
Repeat Voting: A Simple Way To Get More Representative Results
Democratic elections suffer from several shortcomings, including low voter turnout and the effects of inaccurate polling. Sergiu Hart suggests adopting a simple repeat voting...
Different Voting Methods Produce Different—and More Accurate—Results
There is a significant ongoing debate in the United States on the merits of plurality voting (how most American elections are conducted) and how...
Should We Regulate the Revolving Door of Regulators?
Is the revolving door of top regulators one of the reasons for a lack of good regulation? Based on her recent research, Elise Brezis...
The Challenges of Regulating Disinformation
In response to rising concerns about political disinformation, governments have introduced a slew of interventions. Federico Vaccari warns in new research that these interventions...
