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Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the resulting economic...
A Call for Comments: Have You Been Affected by Academic Gatekeeping?
On Friday, ProMarket published a piece by Renée Adams about the impact of academic gatekeeping in political finance. Do you have a similar story...
Unsettled: What is the Economic Impact of Climate Change?
In his book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, Steven Koonin explores misconceptions and shortcomings in the media's...
Who Benefits From Competitive State-Level Legislatures?
A new paper finds that when interparty competition in state legislatures is high, well-connected and influential incumbent firms are best able to take advantage...
No More “Mystery Meat”: Why We Need Better Corporate Governance Data
Three decades of finance, economics, and legal studies in corporate governance have been built substantially on data sets with nearly unknown provenance. A new...
The Most Famous Article on the Theory of the Firm is Widely Misunderstood
Michael Jensen and William Meckling’s famous 1976 Journal of Financial Economics article has been cited nearly 100,000 times and is often regarded as a...
Why We Need to Stop Relying On Patents to Measure Innovation
Patent databases may be a smoke screen that hides the true issues, problems, and dynamics of innovation behind the illusion that innovation is booming—and...
One Year Into the Pandemic: Who Maintains Social Distancing and Who Doesn’t
A new study measures factors associated with the adoption of social distancing across America and finds that widespread adoption of social distancing measures is...
Covid-19 Surges Drive Up Demand – and Pay – For Nurses Willing To Travel
Covid-19 surges have led to spikes in
demand for short-term nurses across the United States. A new paper finds nurses
travel longer distances, and are more...
Judges Who Use Economic Reasoning in Court Decisions Rule In Favor of Business More Often
A
new paper finds that judges who attended law schools
with a strong law-and-economics intellectual environment use more economic
reasoning, which is positively correlated with a higher...
