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Reverse Acquihires Reveal Antitrust's Need To Update Its Conceptual Understanding of Hiring
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (230+ words) Hannah Pittock argues that current analysis of reverse acquihires misses the core conceptual debate over antitrust's antiquated treatment of hiring as benign vertical agreements between the laborers (the supplier) and employers (the buyer), in which labor is treated as one…...
Is Nonprofit Ownership Really About Purpose?
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (1053+ words) Mark "rberg holds a Ph D from Copenhagen Business School and is assistant professor at CBS Law where he teaches corporate law, company law, and administrative law. His current research interests include foundation law, philanthropy law, constitutional law and the…...
Concerns Over Killer Acquisitions Are Redrawing the Boundaries of EU Merger Control and Its Political Economy Underpinnings
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (150+ words) The economics of killer acquisitions and the politics underlying the EUMR A workaround EU solution and its discontents Options for reform and the way forward Author Disclosure: The author reports no conflicts of interest. You can read our disclosure policy'here....
Chinese Car Exports to the EU Exemplify the Role of Data and IP in Trade Relations
2+ week, 3+ day ago (224+ words) Chinese automotive manufacturers gain a competitive edge through laxer rules governing personal data protection and intellectual property. Oscar Borgogno and Giovanni Veronese argue that ensuring effective compliance with European law could help European manufacturers re-establish a level playing field while…...
Can AI Catch Cartels Across Borders?
2+ week, 4+ day ago (480+ words) In new research, Yoan Hermstr'wer and David Imhof analyze how AI can help antitrust authorities predict cartels by assessing international bidding data in countries with similar legal and market structures. A cartel exposed in Switzerland. Another dismantled in Finland. And…...
A New Firearms Tax Design Could Reduce Homicides Without Costing Gun Owners
2+ week, 5+ day ago (486+ words) Luis'Armona'is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research studies the importance of supply-side decision-making in markets with significant regulatory presence, such as higher education and firearms, and how governments should…...
Academic Economists Have an Ethics Problem
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (315+ words) In a recent article, Kate M. Conlow explores how feeble requirements among the American academic economics community to disclose conflicts of interest are compromising research and harming policymaking. Why academic economists" conflicts of interest matter Academic economists occupy a particularly influential…...
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Minimum Wage
3+ week, 4+ day ago (220+ words) Matt Lucky reviews The Wage Standard: What's Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it by Arindrajit Dube, now out at Penguin Press. There is also the question of what is a properly "fair" economy. For instance, Dube's…...
How Race Shapes Americans" Views of Fairness and Trade
4+ week, 2+ hour ago (791+ words) In new research, Daniel Lobo and Ryan Brutger theorize that American concepts of fairness are shaped by race and lived experiences. In a national survey experiment, they confirm that white and Black Americans view differently what constitutes "fair" trade policy....
Happiness Among Americans Plummeted During Covid. It Has Not Recovered Since
1+ mon, 3+ hour ago (631+ words) In new research, Sam Peltzman finds that Americans are significantly less happy than they were before Covid-19, even with the pandemic now in the rearview mirror. Those groups that had fared the best before Covid'white Americans, the wealthiest, college educated,…...