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Western Multinationals Can Improve Workers' Safety, If They Want to: The Case of Bangladesh

In 2013, one of the largest factories in Bangladesh collapsed, killing 1,134 workers. Many multinationals committed to improving safety standards. A new study shows...

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Antitrust and Competition

Beefing Up Merger Enforcement by Banning Merger Remedies

Hal Singer

The unraveling of the T-Mobile/Sprint remedy continues a trend of failed merger consent decrees. One solution, proposed by two antitrust scholars, is...

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Reaching for Influence: Do Banks Use Loans to Establish Political Connections?

Mahsa Kaviani, Hosein Maleki, Pavel Savor

A new study examines whether privately-owned banks seek political influence by offering preferred loan terms to corporate borrowers with valuable political connections,...

Antitrust and Competition

The New Challenges of Assessing Big Tech’s Impact

Michael Gofman, Zhao Jin

Big Tech firms are facing the biggest wave of antitrust legislation in their history. Academic literature reveals the complexity of possible consequences...

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The Metaphysics of Regulatory Capture

Karthik Ramanna

Stiglerian capture and corrosive cultural capture, its left-leaning parallel, are ostensibly symbionts, two attempts at identifying impediments to keeping markets competitive by...

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The Aristocracy of Talent: Business Intelligence

Adrian Wooldridge

In the following excerpt from his new book, The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World, Adrian Wooldridge traces "how universities...