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What is Work?
Jun 10, 2020
What counts as work and what doesn’t?
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Cecilia Rikap
Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP - University College London. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne Cecilia Rikap is a Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). -
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German Court decision: Legal authority and deep power implications
Feb 26, 2014
Who wields supreme power over the ECB? This column analyses the recent ruling by the German Constitutional Court that the ECB cannot act as lender of last resort. Although seemingly couched by the referral of this decision to the European Court of Justice, this is a bid for power and the return to the pre-crisis paradigm of ‘ultra posse nemo obligatur’.
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The Efficiency of Markets
Sep 30, 2015
A student of microeconomics learns that any competitive equilibrium leads to a Pareto efficient outcome (First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics). What do we mean by the efficiency or inefficiency of markets?
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Mr. Market's Rorschach Test
May 7, 2011
Currencies or Commodities?
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China Needs Slower, Better Growth
Aug 8, 2010
Is China growing too fast?
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Working Paper SeriesExecutive compensation in Europe: Realized gains from stock-based pay
Sep 2018
This paper adds to the empirical evidence on the extent to which stock-based pay incentivizes and rewards European corporate executives. It shows that the actual realized gains (that is, take-home compensation) from stock-based pay of CEOs in European publicly-listed firms may be underestimated by the use of “estimated fair value” measures. The paper also documents the heterogeneity among countries in terms of the levels and components of CEO take-home pay. We base our work on a sample of 301 large, publicly-traded companies listed in the S&P Europe 350 index from 11 EU countries: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom for the fiscal year 2015. Through analyzing companies’ annual reports, we have hand-collected data on various elements of compensation of the company’s CEO in 2015, including the gains that executives realize from stock-based pay. We document that on average half of the total compensation of the European CEOs in our sample is stock-based, measured by actual realized gains, with large differences among countries. Although in some European countries the majority of total compensation is stock-based, the proportions are still well below those that prevail in the
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Our Own Worst Enemy
Dec 13, 2021
Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.
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The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution
Aug 6, 2021
Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies’ exorbitant profits, at the expense of vaccinating people living in the Global South and thereby also endangering everyone in the world.
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Working Paper SeriesAmerican Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust
Jul 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.
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2008: A Retrospective on the Financial Crisis
Before 2008, mainstream economics thought a global economic crisis on the scale of the Great Depression was impossible. Then Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. A decade later, INET looks back at the causes of the global financial crisis, and what policymakers—and economists—must change to prevent another one.
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Intellectual Property Watch: Patents Without Examination
Apr 30, 2018
INET Senior Economist Arjun Jayadev and Dean Baker explore the patent system of Brazil, and its implications for developing countries.
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BBC World Service Interviews CGET Commissioners Rob Johnson and Winnie Byanyima
Nov 10, 2017
Why the solution to global inequality may actually be the revival of old school policies such as public education and organised labour rights.
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BBC World Service Interviews CGET Commissioners Rob Johnson and Winnie Byanyima
Nov 10, 2017
Why the solution to global inequality may actually be the revival of old school policies such as public education and organised labour rights.
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Conference paperReal vs. Imagined Financial Markets The Regulatory Challenge
Apr 2012
We have grown accustomed to regulating financial markets based on imagined, not real markets. Real markets are shaped by and co-evolve with institutional arrangements within two fundamental constraints: Imperfect knowledge and the threat of illiquidity.