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How To Fight Online Disinformation In The Wake Of A Bitter Election - By Michael Posner
Prof. Michael Posner op-ed: "How To Fight Online Disinformation In The Wake Of A Bitter Election"
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Making The Right To Vote A Reality For All - By Michael Posner
Prof. Michael Posner op-ed: "Making The Right To Vote A Reality For All"
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How Tesla Should Combat Child Labor In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo - By Michael Posner
Prof. Michael Posner op-ed: "How Tesla Should Combat Child Labor In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo"
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Why Biden Is Better Than Trump for the Economy - By Nouriel Roubini
Professor Nouriel Roubini op-ed: "Why Biden Is Better Than Trump for the Economy"
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How To Be An Effective Advocate: Lessons Learned From RBG - By Michael Posner
Prof. Michael Posner op-ed: "How To Be An Effective Advocate: Lessons Learned From RBG"
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Social Media Platforms Are Undermining Our Democracy. Lawmakers Need to Step Up and Protect It. - By Vasant Dhar
Professor Vasant Dhar co-authored op-ed: “Social Media Platforms are Undermining Our Democracy. Lawmakers Need to Step Up and Protect It.”
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Will the Fed’s New Approach Make Any Difference? - By Mervyn King
Lord Mervyn King op-ed: “Will the Fed’s New Approach Make Any Difference?”
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What Facebook Still Needs To Do About The 2020 Elections - By Michael Posner
"Instead of this half measure, Facebook should immediately decline to post deliberately false ads whenever political candidates and their supporters, whether Democrats or Republicans, seek to place them on the platform. Similarly, when people post holocaust denial content, as they still do, Facebook should take it down. And Zuckerberg should stop asserting that he allows deliberately false political content on the site because he believes in free speech. This absolutist constraint is at the root of many of the challenges they face and leaves the company with little room to maneuver effectively without contradicting itself."
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Is the Almighty Dollar Slipping? - By Nouriel Roubini
"The recent sharp depreciation of the US dollar has led to concerns that it may lose its role as the main global reserve currency. After all, in addition to the US Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary easing – which threatens to debase the world’s key fiat currency even further – gold prices and inflation expectations have also been rising."
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How Facebook Fails To Fight QAnon - By Michael Posner
"Last week, Marjorie Taylor Green easily won a Republican Congressional primary in Georgia and is likely to be elected in November to represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. Green is a deeply divisive candidate, who has delivered a steady stream of inflammatory attacks on Muslims, immigrants, African Americans, and Jews. She also is an avid supporter of QAnon, which occupies a dark corner of the internet, and whose followers believe that there is a worldwide network of Satan-worshiping pedophiles who control politicians and the media. With over a dozen Congressional candidates expressing support for QAnon, its growing collection of misguided and often hateful content poses an emerging threat to our democracy. Its explosive growth also underscores the inadequacy of Facebook’s efforts to address this type of political disinformation."
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If You Like Lockdowns, You’ll Love the Carbon-Free Future - By Paul Tice
"The climate-change movement is taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic, equating it with the “existential crisis” of man-made global warming. While praising the current display of unilateral government action as a model for addressing climate change, many environmentalists and liberal politicians have also called for a surge in government spending on renewable energy projects. The 2020 Democratic Party platform champions “decarbonization” as the best way to “build back better” from the coronavirus."
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America’s Public Pension Challenges Can Be Fixed. Canada Is Proof. - By Ingo Walter
"There are about 5,300 public pension funds in the U.S. today, overseeing some $4 trillion in assets. The 25 largest account for more than half the total. The rest of the market is highly fragmented, with thousands of public pension portfolios managed independently and locally. Fragmentation results in less efficient portfolios and higher operating costs, potentially leading to lower net returns and ultimately a greater funding burden on taxpayers. Especially given the impact of Covid-19 on public finances, there must be a better way."
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Euro Area Bank Bailout Policies After the Global Financial Crisis Sowed Seeds of the Next Crisis - By Viral Acharya
"When considering interventions in the banking sector during crises, governments can either use system-wide or bank-specific measures (Farhi and Tirole 2012). Bank-specific measures can be grouped into three categories (Pazarbasioglu et al. 2011) – (1) guarantees, (2) capital injections, and (3) asset restructuring/resolution – the implementation of which induces different fiscal costs (Stavrakeva 2020)."
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Value Investing Is Still Moribund - By Baruch Lev
"For the unfamiliar: Value investing is a popular investment scheme of buying low-valued stocks (e.g., low market-to-book or price-to-earnings stocks), and selling short highly valued stocks. The natural rebound of the former ('value” stocks) and the price drop of the latter ('growth” stocks) — namely, mean reversion ― generated the gains from value investing in the 1970s and 1980s."
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Revisiting the White Swans of 2020 - By Nouriel Roubini
"At the start of the year, when COVID-19 was barely on anyone's radar outside of China, the global economy was entering a fraught phase, facing a range of potentially devastating tail risks. And though the pandemic has since turned the world on its head, all of these threats remain – and some have become more salient."
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