Very interesting. China’s Third Plenum delay may indicate internal divides. The Diplomat thediplomat.com/2024/03/chinas…

.Carl Shapiro (@BerkeleyHaas) discusses the central role of economics in merger review under Section 7 of the Clayton Act.

This article previews an upcoming debate between Carl Shapiro and Eric Posner at #StiglerAntitrust24 .

promarket.org/2024/04/05/usi…

1/9 #XiJinping 's mismanagement of China's economy is likely to damage the international trading system upon which China built its power. More, it introduces a new risk to China.
Edward White, Cheng Leng explain much here:
ft.com/content/ae5179… via @ft
There's more.

Interesting finding by Charles Angelucci and Andrea Prat:

the ability to distinguish real from fake news is driven much more by demographics (age, education, gender, ethnicity,...) than party affiliation

More bad news for Biden. Gas prices in 2024 have ramped up faster than normal wsj.com/finance/commod…

Over the last two months I've revised downward the likelihood of success for Democrats in November.

Yes, this is a good paper.

Program for the NBER POL program Spring meeting of April 19th nber.org/conferences/po…
organized by Raquel Fernandez & Nathan Nunn.
Open to everyone via streaming youtube.com/nbervideos

🚨NEWS: One of Sen. Shaheen's top donors are execs from a finance firm lobbying on antitrust. Documents show one Shaheen donor pressured regulators to back off antitrust rules.

Shaheen just put language in a bill gutting the antitrust enforcement budget levernews.com/donor-cash-wen…

Breaking the debt supercycle is one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, argues Atif Mian in a new F&D article. imf.org/en/Publication…

We are very pleased to announce that Marina Halac will take over as editor of Econometrica in July 2025. She has done an outstanding job as coeditor and with Marina in charge, the journal will be in great hands. We look forward to continue to work with her econometricsociety.org/publications/n…

The NBER Political Economy Summer Institute Workshop is scheduled to be held on July 16-17, 2024. Organizers are: W. Dzuida, G. Egorov, I. Kuziemko, G. Xu.
If you have a paper that you'd like to present, submit by 11:59 pm (EST) on March 21:   papers.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

The Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation (CHMI) is being launched by the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the Haas School of Business (Haas School of Business) to shape the future of AI in healthcare through data partnerships and more. data.berkeley.edu/news/new-cente…

The Regulatory Review on some of our results w/Miao Ben Zhang: theregreview.org/2024/02/28/hog…

The NBER Political Economy Summer Institute Workshop is scheduled to be held on July 16-17, 2024. Organizers are: W. Dzuida, G. Egorov, I. Kuziemko, G. Xu.
If you have a paper that you'd like to present, submit by 11:59 pm (EST) on March 21:   papers.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

San Francisco is once again experiencing a tech revival as entrepreneurs and investors return after decamping to other cities wsj.com/tech/san-franc…

Alexei Navalny, a fierce anticorruption campaigner who galvanized Russia’s political opposition, has died in prison, Russian news agencies said. wsj.com/world/russia/a… via The Wall Street Journal

Using 2019 Philippine Senatorial election results to show that directly engaging voters and providing them with policy information increases vote share, from Cesi Cruz, Julien Labonne, and Francesco Trebbi nber.org/papers/w32112

Kobe Bryant immortalized with a 19-foot bronze statue outside the Lakers' downtown arena apnews.com/article/lakers…

The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States cato.org/research-brief… via Cato Institute

Best of luck, Chad!!