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Do monopolies actually benefit consumers?
Industries have become more concentrated, while individual product markets have become more competitive.
Why it pays to protect households from personal economic shocks
Helping households avoid idiosyncratic shocks unrelated to the business cycle would yield huge benefits.
Capitalisn’t: Is discrimination still causing the gender pay gap?
Harvard’s Claudia Goldin joins the Capitalisn’t podcast to discuss the drivers of gender pay disparities.
‘Stealth consolidation’ is leading to kidney-failure deaths
Lack of competition in the dialysis industry is leading to lower-quality care, research suggests.
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Are we really more productive working from home?
Data from the pandemic can guide organizations struggling to reimagine the new office.
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Who is right about inflation?
The US Fed and consumers have very different expectations about the future.
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A new approach to ensuring drugs are safe
Researchers propose a new empirical method for monitoring and evaluating the safety of drugs already on the market.
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How rational bank behavior can lead to risky lending
Banks have an incentive to issue risky loans, even amid signs of economic trouble.
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Why craft beer’s rise is a warning flag for all sorts of big brands
Research suggests a supply-driven explanation for millennials’ taste for craft beer.
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The end of ‘the end of inflation’
Inflation can no longer be dismissed as only a concern of the past.