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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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Too closed for comfort

Thorvaldur Gylfason, Arne Jon Isachsen, 22 April 2020

Thorvaldur Gylfason and Arne Jon Isachsen ask why some countries have suffered more severe outbreaks of Covid-19 than others.
Yes, medical gear depends on global supply chains. Here's how to keep them moving

Anabel González, 01 April 2020

Anabel González makes the case for a compact to encourage global production and distribution of medical supplies.
The coronavirus and financial stability

Arnoud Boot, Elena Carletti, Rainer Haselmann, Hans‐Helmut Kotz, Jan Pieter Krahnen, Loriana Pelizzon, Stephen Schaefer, Marti Subrahmanyam, 24 March 2020

The virus epidemic carries the risk of a financial pandemic which may even spiral into a global phenomenon, strenghtening the case for some form of a joint and mutual insurance scheme
Trump's trade policy is hampering the US fight against COVID-19

Chad Bown, 16 March 2020

Chad Bown argues that President Trump's administration should permanently and comprehensively suspend the trade war tariffs on critical medical products from China
Limiting the economic fallout of the coronavirus with large targeted policies

Gita Gopinath, 12 March 2020

Gita Gopinath argues that substantial targeted policies are needed to support the economy through the COVID-19 epidemic

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