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Research Highlights Article

Shadow business

November 12, 2018
How many cartels exist and how important is competition policy to reining them in?
Research Highlights Article

The heroin balloon

November 7, 2018
A push to make prescription opioids more difficult to abuse touched off a surge of heroin deaths.
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A shock to civility

November 5, 2018
When liberalized trade caused foreign competition to increase in Brazil, crime went up, too.
Research Highlights Article

Fragile innovation

November 2, 2018
This video explains how financial innovation helped cause the 2008 financial crisis.
Research Highlights Podcast

How Democrats lost the South

October 29, 2018
The AEA interviews Ilyana Kuziemko and Ebonya Washington about why Southern states turned Republican in the 1960s.