Regulation and Competition
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The health care industry repeatedly tells people they need to make well-informed choices about their treatment. But if people aren't getting the information they need [...]
July 09, 2021
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SIEPR seeks Director of Partnerships
SIEPR's new Director of Partnerships will play an instrumental role in working with external groups and organizations to engage our community of faculty, visitors, students [...]
May 20, 2021
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"I think the end result that most players are looking for here is not IP waiver in particular, it's expanded global access to the vaccines," says Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.
May 07, 2021
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Research by SIEPR Faculty Fellow Christopher Tonetti shows how competition from imports pushes domestic laggards to adopt more efficient practices and technologies.
May 05, 2021
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Often tapped for insights on antitrust matters, SIEPR senior fellow Mark Lemley weighs in on the implications of the latest big case between Apple and Epic, the maker of 鈥淔ortnite.
April 30, 2021
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak contends there are ways for Texas to improve its power system without abandoning its underlying market structure.
March 09, 2021
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As Janet Yellen's confirmation hearings for Treasury Secretary get underway, John Taylor provides his insights on how economic policy will look like under her tenure.
January 18, 2021
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As Parler, a conservative social media platform, fights against getting cut off by various tech giants, Bloomberg taps SIEPR Sr Fellow Alan Sykes for input on its antitrust claim.
January 11, 2021
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Teacher licensing laws keep out least qualified teachers
SIEPR鈥檚 Bradley Larsen wades into the policy debate over the value of teacher certification with evidence that tougher requirements can help weed out less-capable candidates.
December 07, 2020
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Trailblazing economist and presidential adviser Edward Lazear dies at 72
The SIEPR senior fellow founded the field of personnel economics.
November 24, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Paul Milgrom and the GSB's Robert Wilson talk about their auction design research.
November 19, 2020
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Antitrust law should probably address matters like Apple鈥檚 pricing policies, but in court, game maker Epic faces an uphill battle in its lawsuit against Apple, says Mark Lemley.
September 26, 2020
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Ed Lazear鈥檚 recently published research found flaws in long-held theories of how immigrants with varying education levels manage to migrate to the US & other advanced countries.
September 15, 2020
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鈥淭here鈥檚 a spectrum of possible work relationships. And we want to both protect workers along that spectrum, but also allow some amount of flexibility," says Paul Oyer.
August 11, 2020
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"Companies told they are under a formal investigation may submit a white paper or other materials that make their case to the regulator [...]," says Joseph Grundfest.
July 27, 2020
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Joseph Grundfest is "so closely associated with post-Cyan federal forum selection clauses that Robbins Geller refers to the provisions [...] as 'Grundfest clauses.'"
July 13, 2020
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SIEPR Senior Fellow Darrell Duffie weighs in on the subject of Libor, a topic about which he has written extensively.
May 06, 2020
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鈥淭his is like an economy in wartime," says SIEPR Senior Fellow Nick Bloom as he describes strategies for how to ensure masks for the frontline workers who need them most.
April 28, 2020
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"Looking beyond today鈥檚 public-health imperatives, the US must develop an economic strategy that does not override markets," according to Michael Boskin and John Taylor.
April 13, 2020
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A new initiative has been launched to urge universities and companies to free up intellectual property (IP) to spur development of treatments and cures for Covid-19.
April 01, 2020