In new research, Pranjal Drall and Andrew Granato argue that the move of private equity firms into life insurance has increased the probability that insurers will go insolvent. If they do, under an ...

The discussion about concentration in artificial intelligence markets focuses on the least concentrated layer, the models. The chokepoint that actually threatens AI is the production of refined ...

The Stigler Center is putting out a call for papers for its 2027 annual conference. The theme of this year’s conference will be the impact of artificial intelligence on markets and democracy. Please ...

Artificial intelligence agents are beginning to interact in ways that create risks beyond individual misalignment with corporate and social expectations. As happened with global finance after the 2007 ...

In new research, Andrey Simonov, Daniil Mikhailov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Ruben Durante estimate that when a 2016 law pushed Russia’s leading news aggregator Yandex to reduce its references to ...

In new research, Yulia Chikish, Gregory J. Colman, Dhaval M. Dave, Brad R. Humphreys, Zachary Santamaria, and Zachary Winship find that New York City congestion pricing has reduced emergency medical ...

PhD candidate in Financial Economics at Yale. His research is in corporate finance, bankruptcy and financial regulation with a focus on information frictions in asset valuation.

Piyush Akimitsu is a PhD candidate in economics and instructor of record at the University at Albany, SUNY. His research focuses on the role of information, technology and regulation in financial, ...

Walid Chaiehloudj is a Professor of Law at Université Côte d’Azur, a member of the Institut universitaire de France, a member of the board of the Autorité de la concurrence (France), Vice-President of ...

Judge Amit Mehta’s remedies for Google’s search monopoly stopped short of banning payments for default search placement, reflecting the hope that generative AI will erode the power of traditional ...

Wealth taxes can make capital markets more efficient when they are optimally combined with lower capital gains taxes, argue Sergio Ocampo, Guttorm Schjelderup, and Floris Zoutman in new research. In ...

In new research, Filippo Lancieri, Laura Edelson, and Stefan Bechtold explore how the political economy of artificial intelligence regulation is shaped by the strategic behavior of governments, ...