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Competition-friendly industrial policy

Industrial policy, essential for addressing market failures, encounters concerns regarding protecting inefficient firms. We advocate for competition-friendly industrial policies, …

philippe-aghion

Ownership and power structure: Together at last

Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at …

harald-fadinger

How university admissions can help integrate secondary schools

n recent years, several US states have introduced college admission policies that reward local rather than global relative performance by guaranteeing admission to students …

fernanda-estevan

Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Increasingly, people are pointing the finger of blame for economic woe at large firms. This column argues that organisation design is often affected by government trade policy. If …

paola-conconi

Firm organisation: What we know and why we should care

Increasingly, people are pointing the finger of blame for economic woe at large firms. This column argues that organisation design is often affected by government trade policy. If …

laura-alfaro

The Nobel Prize: What is mechanism design and why does it matter for policy-making?

Mechanism design theory is a major breakthrough in the modern economic analysis of institutions and markets. It revolutionalised the way economists think about optimal institutions …

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