Archive
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Collection
A New Future for Antitrust?
INET papers and articles related to our co-sponsored event at the University of Utah featuring conversations between Utah judges, law professors, attorneys & economists. Watch the sessions
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News
Katharina Pistor on Facebook's Libra
Oct 24, 2019
INET grantee Katharina Pistor is featured in Bloomberg
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Article
Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Oct 21, 2019
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
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Paper
Working Paper Series
Big Tech Acquisitions and the Potential Competition Doctrine: The Case of Facebook
Oct 2019
How antitrust law is ill-equipped to address tech mergers
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Video
Measuring Economic Democracy
Oct 9, 2019
GDP doesn’t tell the whole story—Robert McMaster explains the Economic Democracy Index
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Grant
Years granted:
2011,
Money and Empire: A Biography of the Dollar
This research project recounts the intellectual history of the dollar as an international reserve currency, starting with World War I, which brought the international gold standard to an end, and continuing all the way up to the present global financial crisis.
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Years granted:
The Methodology of Systematic Risk
This research project explores the factors producing “herding” in the economics profession and professional investment community with the goal of articulating policy changes appropriate to the organization of the economics profession and its practices in particular.
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Grant
Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013,
Robustness of Policy Analysis to Departures from Model-Consistent Expectations
This research project develops an approach to policy analysis in the context of a macroeconomic model that does not assume that people in the economy forecast the economy’s future evolution under any given policy in the same way as the policy analyst’s own model does.
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Grant
Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
Legal Fiction: An Intellectual History of the COASE Theorem
This research project provides us with a greater understanding of why the Coase theorem came to captivate the minds of economics and legal scholars and how its impact on economics and law reshaped both the theoretical landscape and legal-economic policymaking.
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Grant
Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
Economics: Value Neutral or Value Entangled
This research project demonstrates the ways in which fact and value are entangled in economic concepts and the implications of this entanglement for the ways in which various economic problems are approached.
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Grant
Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
Estimation of Stock Flow Consistent Models
This research project develops, estimates, calibrates, and deploys a new class of stock flow consistent macroeconomic models to try to understand Ireland’s macroeconomic collapse since 2007.
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Article
How Performance Evaluation Metrics Corrupt Researchers
Oct 3, 2019
New research shows how citation metrics create perverse incentives for corruption in economics
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Video
In Defense of Economic Theory
Oct 2, 2019
Wade Hands argues that empiricism without theory is insufficient
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Article
Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom
Oct 1, 2019
Summers and Stansbury mark a dramatic shift from New Keynesian orthodoxy, but only make it halfway to understanding the demand-driven nature of stagnant growth
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News
Exposing Citation Gaming and its Institutional Causes
Sep 16, 2019
A new method developed by INET grantees to estimate country-level citation clubs and self-citations is making waves, with implications far beyond the paper’s initial focus.