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Facebook, Extreme Inequality, and Globalization: ProMarket’s Top Stories of 2018
As 2018 draws to a close, we look back at ProMarket’s most-read and most-widely shared stories of the past year.
The early mentor to Mark...
Not Your Typical Short Seller: The Stigler Center Hosts Fahmi Quadir
Quadir, known for betting against Valeant in 2015, will discuss short selling, exposing corporate fraud and thriving in a sometimes-reviled industry lacking diversity in...
A Former Central Banker Tells Other Central Bankers: “Stay Away From Davos”
In an interview with ProMarket, former Bank of England deputy governor Sir Paul Tucker explains why the “unelected power” of central bankers threatens our...
Luigi Zingales Proposes Creation of Interdisciplinary Committee on Digital Platforms Regulation
The Committee on Internet Platforms Regulation, proposed Zingales would be comprised of academics and experts on the industry.
At the end of the Stigler Center’s conference...
eDistortions: How Data-opolies Are Dissipating the Internet's Potential
In this chapter from the forthcoming Stigler Center ebook Digital Platforms and Concentration, published in anticipation of the eponymous conference at Chicago Booth on...
The Stigler Center Dedicates Second Annual Antitrust and Competition Conference to Digital Platforms and Concentration
The invitation-only conference will bring together economists, law scholars, intellectuals, venture capitalists, and businesspeople to debate how to promote competition in a world of...
What Insights Do Taxi Rides Offer into Federal Reserve Leakage?
Does investment-relevant information leak from the Fed? A new Stigler Center working paper finds surprising and novel evidence in a public dataset.
One of the...
A Statement From ProMarket's Editors
A statement from University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor and Stigler Center Director Luigi Zingales and ProMarket editor Samantha Eyler-Driscoll.
The senior editor...
Announcing the Participants in the 2018 Stigler Center Journalist in Residence Program
From March, the Stigler Center will welcome eight world-class journalists from Canada, Chile, China, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States for an...
What’s Capitalism Got Going for It—and Against It? A New Podcast, Capitalisn’t, Tallies the Score
“Capitalism is the engine of prosperity.” “Capitalism sows the seeds of its own demise.” Could both things be true? Economists Kate Waldock and Luigi...
