Business & Industry
-
The Future of Work | Making Technologies Work for All
Webinarmoderated by Katya Klinova with Antonio Andreoni, Tess Posner and Martin Reeves
Jan 19, 2021
What are the choices we must make to ensure technology empowers, augments, rewards, and respects the majority, not the few, given its increasing defining role in future economies and societies?
-
Heading for a Crash? The Future of the Automobile Industry
Dec 9, 2020
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry
-
Working Paper Series
The Future of the Automotive Industry: Dangerous Challenges or New Life for a Saturated Market?
Dec 2020
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry
-
Debt Talks Episode 3 | How Bad Can It Still Get? Credit Risks, Debt Overhang, and the COVID-19 Recession
WebinarClick to Register | moderated by Moritz Schularick with Megan Greene, Anatole Koletsky and Yueran Ma
Hosted by Private Debt
Oct 20, 2020
What is the current situation in credit markets? Will an overhang of debt on corporate balance sheets slow down the recovery from the COVID recession and be a drag on investment going forward? Does the COVID recession still have the potential to turn into a broader financial meltdown?
-
Mossadeck Bally, CEO Azalaï Hotels Group : « Le secteur privé africain doit faire partie intégrante des plans de relance économique »
Oct 13, 2020
Dans le cadre de cet entretien, Mr. Mossadeck Bally, C.E.O, Azalai Hotels Group et membre du GRAIN (Groupe de Réflexion, d’Actions et d’Initiatives Novatrices) revient sur les impacts économiques de la pandémie du COVID-19 sur son groupe hôtelier, le rôle du secteur privé malien dans le plan de relance économique, l’emploi des jeunes et les solutions qui doivent être apportées à la crise politique au Mali.
-
Mossadeck Bally, CEO Azalaï Hotels group: “Africa’s Economic Recovery Plans Must Involve the Private Sector as an Integral Part”
Oct 13, 2020
In this interview, Mr. Mossadeck Bally, a Malian businessman and CEO of Azalai Hotels Group and member of GRAIN (Group of Reflection, Actions and Innovative Initiatives) discusses the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on his hotel group, the role of the Malian private sector in the economic recovery plan, youth employment and the solutions that must be provided to the political crisis in Mali.
-
The Future of Work | What is Technology? Accelerator, Enabler, or Displacer?
Webinarmoderated by Katya Klinova with Long Chen, Anton Korinek and John Van Reenen
Sep 29, 2020
Human societies have always coevolved with technology, but how can we think of technology? Is it an external force outside our control, or do we have a say in its direction, development and deployment?
-
The Restructuring of the World Automobile Industry
WebinarSep 26, 2020
An INET organized panel under the auspices of the 2020 Trento Economic Festival
-
Working Paper Series
Spilt Milk: COVID-19 and the Dangers of Dairy Industry Consolidation
Aug 2020
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.
-
How Dairy Monopolies Keep Milk Off the Shelves
Aug 19, 2020
Consolidation in the dairy industry has created separate, inflexible supply chains for consumers and commercial markets. When COVID killed commercial demand, perfectly good milk and cheese was wasted.
-
Working Paper
How “Maximizing Shareholder Value” Minimized the Strategic National Stockpile: The $5.3 Trillion Question for Pandemic Preparedness Raised by the Ventilator Fiasco
Jul 2020
The success of projects for pandemic preparedness and response depends on the strength of government-business collaborations.
-
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 15, 2020
Since the 1980s, the enemy of equal employment opportunity through upward socioeconomic mobility has been the pervasive and entrenched corporate-governance ideology and practice of maximizing shareholder value.
-
Working Paper Series
How the Disappearance of Unionized Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
Jun 2020
In this introduction to our project, “Fifty Years After: Black Employment in the United States Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” we outline the socioeconomic forces behind the promising rise and disastrous fall of an African American blue-collar middle class.
-
Working Paper Series
Profits, Innovation and Financialization in the Insulin Industry
Apr 2020
This paper considers the relationship between profits realized from higher insulin list prices, pharmaceutical innovation, and the financial structures of the three dominant insulin manufacturing companies, which set list prices.
-
Which Businesses Will Covid-19 Disrupt and Why? An Assessment Based on Firm-Level Data
Apr 2, 2020
The scale of firm exposure to the coronavirus is unprecedented by earlier outbreaks, spans all major economies and is pervasive across all industries
-
Working Paper Series
Firm-Level Exposure to Epidemic Diseases: Covid-19, SARS, and H1N1
Apr 2020
As Covid-19 spreads globally in the first quarter of 2020, this paper finds that firms’ primary concerns relate to the collapse of demand, increased uncertainty, and disruption in supply chains
-
Top Economist: Instead of Basic Income, Let’s Keep People Working Productively During the Crisis
Mar 25, 2020
William Lazonick emphasizes that keeping workers productively employed is key to economic recovery from Covid-19 as well as a healthy economic future
-
4 Ways to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic
Mar 23, 2020
It’s time for business executives, employees, and taxpayers to come together to help get us out of the pandemic and create conditions for a sustainable and equitable future
-
Report
Taxpayer Investment Leads New Drug Discoveries
Mar 2020
New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade
-
Hikmat – Lectures in Economics
DiscussionJan 23, 2020
Prof. Oliver Hart will deliver the inaugural talk on Corporate Purpose
-
The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 15, 2019
Brexit uncertainty has already taken an economic toll
-
Working Paper Series
The Global Impact of Brexit Uncertainty
Dec 2019
Using tools from computational linguistics, we construct new measures of the impact of Brexit on listed firms in the United States and around the world
-
Banning Buybacks
Dec 4, 2019
Stock buybacks are giveaways for greedy investors at the expense of everyone else.
-
Financialization of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Dec 2, 2019
Pharmaceutical drugs are often a matter of life or death. It should be a prime objective of government policy to rid the industry of financialization.
-
WeWork Showed Us How Badly Start-up Bros Suck—but Shareholder Rule Isn’t Better
Nov 7, 2019
To make start-ups work for everyone, we need to put power back in the hands of workers.
-
Facebook, Acquisitions, and Potential Competition
Oct 21, 2019
Big Tech companies are swallowing up nascent competitors. Why aren’t regulators paying attention?
-
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
-
Antitrust and the Consumer Welfare Standard
Jul 16, 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy
-
Working Paper Series
American Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust
Jul 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.
-
After Over Three Decades, Rebel Economist Breaks Through to Washington. Here’s How He Did It.
Jul 1, 2019
The idea that businesses are run to maximize profits for shareholders is just plain wrong, says William Lazonick
-
Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?
Jun 21, 2019 |
-
Socialism in Our Time?
May 21, 2019
One of America’s leading socialists discusses how a collectively owned economy would be structured, the limits of the welfare state, and what Keynes understood that Marx didn’t
-
Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
May 2, 2019
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy
-
Working Paper Series
Antitrust and Economic History: The Historic Failure of the Chicago School of Antitrust
May 2019
This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.
-
Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
Mar 7, 2019
US counties with prison labor often have lower wage and employment growth
-
Do Real Estate Markets Make Our Cities Less Livable?
Mar 4, 2019
Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes housing and what economists have in common with city planners
-
Don't “Buyback” Fair Labor Standards
Feb 20, 2019
We need to ban stock buybacks, while building a movement for basic economic rights
-
World Economic Roundtable
DiscussionExplaining a Decade of Stagnation: Where Do We Go From Here?
Dec 14, 2017
The World Economic Roundtable seeks to help the business, investment, and policy communities understand ongoing changes in the world economy and to promote a discussion of ideas that can advance the goal of a widely shared global prosperity.
-
Working Paper Series
Corporate Scandals and Regulation
Dec 2017
Are regulatory interventions delayed reactions to market failures or can regulators proactively pre-empt corporate misbehavior?
-
What Really Caused the Crisis & What to Do About It
Oct 14, 2015
Adair Turner discusses his new book, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance.
-
Demystifying Modern Monetary Theory
Dec 27, 2014
Bill Mitchell presents a coherent analysis of how money is created, how it functions in global exchange rate regimes, and how the mystification of the nature of money has constrained governments, and prevented states from acting in the public interest.
-
Self-Control and Public Pensions
Jul 13, 2014
Our welfare depends not only on our actual consumption, but also on alternate choices wedid not make.
-
Integration, Currency Unions, and Balance of Payments
Apr 10, 2014 | 09:00—10:45
-
Conference paper
The Persistence of a Reckless Banking System
Apr 2014
The fall of 2008 was scary. For most people, the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy resembled a major earthquake with strong aftershocks. Official narratives have promoted the image of the crisis as a rare, unpreventable and unforeseen natural disaster, the “100-year flood.” Policymakers emphasize the extraordinary measures they have taken to prevent the system from collapsing and to support recovery since.
-
Have We Repaired Financial Regulations since Lehman?
Apr 9, 2014 | 11:45—01:15
-
What is Economic Success?
Oct 11, 2013
“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”