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Using computational linguistics to estimate firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings conference calls.

Does cyber risk exposure, as opposed to actual incidents, affect firm outcomes?

In honor of the just-announced Nobel Prize in Economics for Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, we re-post an Economics and Beyond podcast episode from last year, featuring Johnson, discussing Johnson and Acemoglu’s latest book, Power and Progress.

Revenues to GB electricity generators in 2022 increased by almost £30bn, compared to pre-COVID levels.

Dennis Kelleher, co-founder of Washington DC-based financial watchdog Better Markets, explains how Main Street gets hurt by the ongoing banking turmoil and why crypto is the last place anybody should be running to for safety.

What’s really causing inequality in opportunities and outcomes for kids?

“We need to look at the early warning systems in place and aspire to attain food security.”

Current tests for mergers are in practice deeply flawed.

Antitrust econometrics relies on often-implausible assumptions

Brendan Ballou discusses the growing harmful role of private equity in the US, and his forthcoming book. Ballou is a federal prosecutor and served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

INET-funded study: Government provides early investment in pharmaceutical innovation

Discussions on the key conceptual and policy themes for sovereign debt sustainability with a view to proposing possible policy reforms.

What happens when we fuse, for the first time, artificially intelligent agents into either our market or political structures?

Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.