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	The Horizontal Merger Efficiency FallacyAug 2023 By permitting business definitions of “efficiency” to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice 
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	Why The Monetary Policy Framework in Advanced Countries Needs Fundamental ReformAug 2023 Monetary policy should be guided much more by financial sector developments and much less by near-term targets for inflation. 
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	Is “Inflation First” Really “Rentiers First”? The Taylor Rule and Rentier Income in Industrialized CountriesJul 2023 Central banks strongly favored rentier incomes in their reaction functions 
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	Betting on Black Gold: Oil Speculation and U.S. Inflation (2020-2022)Jun 2023 Were the sharp increases in prices during 2020-2022 due to fundamental shifts in supply and demand or are they attributable to excessive market speculation? 
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	The Wage Effect of Workplace Sexual Harassment: Evidence for Women in EuropeJun 2023 Changes to deeply entrenched systems of unequal gender power dynamics, roles and relations, underpinned by patriarchal values, are part of an effective response to the prevention of sexual harassment and its economic consequences. 
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	The Anatomy of Cyber RiskMay 2023 Does cyber risk exposure, as opposed to actual incidents, affect firm outcomes? 
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	Where Does the Money Go? An Analysis of Revenues in the GB Power Sector During the Energy CrisisMay 2023 Revenues to GB electricity generators in 2022 increased by almost £30bn, compared to pre-COVID levels. 
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	The Perils of Antitrust Econometrics: Unrealistic Engel Curves, Inadequate Data, and Aggregation BiasMay 2023 Antitrust econometrics relies on often-implausible assumptions 
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	The Gift of Sanctions: An Analysis of Assessments of the Russian Economy, 2022 – 2023Apr 2023 Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift. 
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	Current External Challenges to the Economic Expansion of Emerging MarketsMar 2023 A Balance-of-Payments Constrained Growth Perspective 
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	The Pursuit of Shareholder Value: Cisco’s Transformation from Innovation to FinancializationFeb 2023 On the dereliction of key US-based business corporations to take the lead in making the investments in organizational learning required to generate cutting-edge communication-infrastructure products. 
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	Distributive Profiles Associated with Domestic Versus International Specialization in Global Value ChainsFeb 2023 If primary commodities and mid-to-high-tech manufacturing products are produced by industries with different wage shares, there are distributive implications of deepening trade integration with certain regions with respect to others. 
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	What Next for the Post Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?Jan 2023 The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public. 
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	Monopsony in Professional Labor Markets: Hospital System Concentration and Nurse WagesJan 2023 Increased hospital system consolidation in small Metropolitan Statistical Areas is adversely related to nurse wage growth. 
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	Exorbitant Privilege? On the Rise (and Rise) of the Global Dollar SystemJan 2023 Things are going to break and central banks are going to have to respond, but the mental frame that most people will be using is not well suited for understanding how the world now works