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Do politics have a place in Fed appointments?
Chicago Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets invited its US panel of economic experts to express views on whether making political opinions the primary criteria for selection to the Fed would be detrimental to US monetary policy.
Who’s at fault for student-loan defaults?
For-profit colleges enroll 10 percent of US students but account for 50 percent of student-loan defaults. And low-income students are hit the hardest.
Capitalisn’t: Regulating Facebook and Google—the market-structure perspective
On this episode of the Capitalisn’t podcast, hosts Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales speak with Yale’s Fiona Scott Morton to interrogate digital platforms from the standpoint of markets.
Capitalisn’t: The morality or immorality of a wealth tax
Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales break down how wealth taxes have or haven’t worked in other countries and whether they could work in America.
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A.I. is only human
Can we keep our flaws out of artificial intelligence and its decision-making?
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Who’s at fault for student-loan defaults?
For-profit colleges enroll 10 percent of US students but account for 50 percent of student-loan defaults. And low-income students are hit the hardest.
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How to fight corruption—and why we should
Petty corruption was long thought to grease the wheels of business. But economists are learning how much it can hold back some companies and local economies.
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Are investors chronically pessimistic?
Investors’ prediction bias doesn't appear to be systematically pessimistic or optimistic, but it may be procyclical.
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Tackle gender inequality at home and at work
Flexible but lower-paying jobs lead to an earnings gap.
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The right questions to ask for startup success
How venture capitalists evaluate entrepreneurs