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The antitrust orthodoxy is blind to real data harms
Cristina Caffarra, Gregory Crawford, Johnny Ryan, 22 April 2021

Cristina Caffarra, Gregory Crawford and Johnny Ryan make the case that (lack of) privacy is an (often unobservable) price of using digital platforms, and that (lack of) privacy facilitates mainstream antitrust harms such as exploitation and foreclosure by dominant digital platforms.
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: A review
Shafik Hebous, 07 April 2021

Shafik Hebous admires how Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod draw out common threads of tax principles and practice that have underlain tax systems for thousands of years to show us why polices were chosen, and why they failed or prevailed.
Democracy in Iceland
Thorvaldur Gylfason, 31 March 2021

Thorvaldur Gylfason argues that unless Iceland's Parliament confronts the country's oligarchs and respects the will of the people by ratifying the new constitution designed to reverse the retreat of age-old democracy, it risks becoming a failed state.
Government spending: Less may be more!
Roel Beetsma, Ludger Schuknecht, 25 March 2021

Roel Beetsma and Ludger Schuknecht argue that governments could and should deliver more for their citizens’ money.

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Some unwanted consequences of a digital euro

Ignazio Angeloni, 01 December 2020

Ignazio Angeloni argues that the ECB should think twice before deciding to issue a digital euro.
Next Generation EU: Europe needs pan-European investment

Roel Beetsma, Lorenzo Codogno, Paul van den Noord, 09 November 2020

Next Generation EU should not turn out to be a missed opportunity to initiate and fund genuine pan-European infrastructure projects with a high impact on potential growth. Roel Beetsma, Lorenzo Codogno and Paul van den Noord argue that the subsidiarity principle calls for such a pan-EU initiative.
Why is COVID-19 incidence in authoritarian China so much lower than in the democratic US: Effectiveness of collective action or Chinese cover-up?

Alex Cukierman, 26 October 2020

Two-thirds of the discrepancy in Covid-19 cases and deaths in the US and China may reflect the advantage of the Chinese authoritarian regime in mobilising public collective action as well as the public minimisation of the health hazards by President Trump.
The joy of statistics

Diane Coyle, 07 October 2020

Diane Coyle reviews two books with the mission of imparting critical thinking about statistics to their readers.
Ode to muddling through

László Andor, 10 September 2020

László Andor reviews a memoir by Olli Rehn, his former colleague at the Commission and a central figure in the response to the euro crisis of 2010-14.

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