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CBR Briefing #48
Public audit oversight enhances investor trust in financial reports
How stricter financial-reporting enforcement can hurt shareholders
Even when transparency improves, the costs may outweigh the benefits to shareholders.
Stricter banking supervision boosted lending
Research finds positive outcomes from a recent banking reform, including for banks that were already healthy.
Five revealing charts from our spring issue
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Are you ready for personalized pricing?
Companies are figuring out what individual customers will pay—and charging accordingly.
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How poverty changes your mind-set
Understanding psychology may be key to addressing the problem
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Why hasn’t technology sped up productivity?
Slow productivity growth is costly. There’s cause for hope.
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Not all ‘pump and dump’ investors are gullible
Research explores who actually invests in pump-and-dump schemes
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Why it’s so hard to simplify the tax code
How complicated tax laws undermine efforts to create a fair, growing economy
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Are Google and Facebook monopolies?
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition