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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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Designing an effective US policy response to coronavirus

David Wilcox, 05 March 2020

David Wilcox argues that a smart and rapid policy response to both the public health crisis and the likely economic slump in the US as a result of coronavirus is urgently needed
Google/Fitbit review: Privacy IS a competition issue

Cristina Caffarra, Tommaso Valletti, 04 March 2020

Cristina Caffarra and Tommaso Valletti argue that the role of data and the interface between competition and privacy issues is very broad and goes further than privacy as a parameter of competition
As the Coronavirus spreads, can the EU afford to close its borders?

Raffaella Meninno, Guntram Wolff, 28 February 2020

Raffaella Meninno and Guntram Wolff argue that closing the EU's borders to contain the spread of Coronavirus would cause serious economic disruption
Reversing the retreat of democracy: The case of Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason, 19 February 2020

Thorvaldur Gylfason discusses the decay of social capital in Iceland
US-Kenya trade negotiations: A chance to get it right

Anabel González, 15 February 2020

Anabel González discusses the recently announced negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement between the United States and Kenya, which would be the United States’ first such accord with a sub-Saharan country

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