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What are we regulating for?
Cristina Caffarra, 03 September 2021

Cristina Caffarra discusses why current proposals for digital platform regulation are not going to get us far.
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.

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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.
Undoing the flight to quality: A multilateral countercyclical liquidity fund

Eduardo Levy Yeyati, 06 August 2020

Eduardo Levy Yeyati argues that a countercyclical liquidity fund could complete the financial architecture not only by providing much needed lending of last resort during systemic crises, but also as a way to attract less unstable private capital to emerging economies.
Landmark court decision limits presidential trade restrictions

Steve Charnovitz, Gary Hufbauer, 28 July 2020

The U.S. Court of International Trade’s landmark decision voiding President Trump's tariffs on steel from Turkey opens the door to future challenges of US trade actions based on equal protection grounds
A Hamiltonian glimpse in Europe

Thorsten Beck, 27 July 2020

Thorsten Beck believes that while the compromise reached on the European recovery support will not be enough to overcome the COVID-19 challenges in the EU, it is an important first step.
USTR Lighthizer and US trade policy: Right goals, wrong strategy

Joshua P. Meltzer, 26 June 2020

Joshua Meltzer argues that the Trump administration has failed to provide a coherent vision for maintaining and expanding US competitiveness in the 21st century, including through its trade policy.

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