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January 2022
Is the Bossless Company a Dream or a Nightmare?
Is the Bossless Company a Dream or a Nightmare?
HARSH KETKAR
After an initial bout of success, many bossless companies are forced to lay off workers or to reverse to a traditional, hierarchical structure. Learn why.
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No Shame: We Can Escape the Poverty Trap
No Shame: We Can Escape the Poverty Trap
ADAM ERIC GREENBERG
Being ashamed of your financial troubles leads you into more financial troubles. A study that followed 2,000 people over five years and an experiment show how.
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Why to Embrace Gender Quotas
Why to Embrace Gender Quotas
PAOLA PROFETA
When gender quotas were introduced in Italian boards, the quality of male directors also improved.
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Public Debt After the Pandemic
Public Debt After the Pandemic
FRANCESCO GIAVAZZI
When the COVID crisis is over, returning to the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact would be problematic.
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Inequality Is not Inevitable
Inequality Is not Inevitable
ZACHARY PAROLIN
Public policies may offset the effects of market forces, each country in its own way.
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Get to Understand Shadow Trading
Get to Understand Shadow Trading
WANLI ZHAO
Using private information to profit from trade in linked companies is as hurtful to listed companies as insider trading, but it goes too often undetected.
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Video & Podcast
The Economics of Crime
The Economics of
Crime
PAOLO PINOTTI
An Endowed Chair studies organized crime and corruption.
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Stereotypes in Education
Stereotypes in Education
LUCIA CORNO
Parents and peers can keep girls away from STEM subjects.
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Sacrificing the Firstborn
Sacrificing the
Firstborn
MARIO DANIELE AMORE, ALESSANDRO MINICHILLI
Younger siblings boost
post succession
firm perfomance.
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