Archive: Economics
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So You Want to be a Professor? Here are Some Inconvenient Truths
Jason Brennan, the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, is one of the most productive scholars I know. He earned his Ph.D. in 2007, and since then he has written nineteen books that are either published or forthcoming as well as 46 journal articles. On top of that, he’s a guitar aficionado who plays in two bands.
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MBA Prof. Arthur Dong: Warren Buffet Valuations & MBAs
How beneficial is an MBA when you have an undergrad business degree? What does a Warren Buffet valuation look like? Our latest guest is MBA Professor Arthur Dong, a professor of economic, financial, and managerial strategy at Georgetown’s MBA program! And stay tuned till the end when Professor Dong details his harrowing experiences doing business in post-Soviet Russia.
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Meet the Class of 2020: Katie Glaser (B’20)
Katie Glaser (B'20)Hometown: Greensboro, North Carolina Majors(s): Accounting and FinanceMinor: Economics Why did you choose Georgetown? I chose Georgetown for its academic rigor, perfec
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Can It. Amazon Is Not Your Typical Grocery Store
An op-ed by Hal Singer, adjunct professor: “The coronavirus has rendered brick-and-mortar retailers even less capable at restraining Amazon’s market power. As the antitrust and regulatory spotlight shines bright on Amazon’s abuses during the pandemic, a report from The Wall Street Journal revealed last week that Amazon employees accessed data from individual marketplace sellers when developing products the company would create and sell under its own brand names.”
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Five Myths About Antitrust Law
An article by John Mayo, Elsa Carlson McDonough Chair of Business Administration, professor of economics, business and public policy and executive director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “After years of relative quiet, antitrust law and policy are back in the public eye. The Trump administration has targeted large technology-based firms for antitrust scrutiny. When she was running for president, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed a plan to break up big tech companies and regulate them as utilities; other Democratic candidates echoed her sentiments, if not her specificity. Discussions of antitrust policy are clouded, however, by common myths about this century-old but widely misunderstood area of the law.”
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With the Fed Expected to Ease, Doubts Arise Over Whether Rate Cuts Will Help
To address the dual threat, the Fed should act in concert not only with its peers but also fiscal authorities, said economist Paul McCulley, formerly of Pimco and now adjunct professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business.
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Bad News for Silicon Valley: William Barr is Taking Control of Antitrust Probes
Barr, who at age 69 is serving his second stint as U.S attorney general, also has few deterrents to waging an aggressive attack, said Hal Singer, an antitrust economist and adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s business school. “Barr doesn’t need future gigs so he can pursue the tech platforms without worry about his future income,” Singer said.
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What Type of Economy Does China Have?
“Where China’s economy is today versus 10 years ago, there’s been significant change,” Arthur Dong of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business told FOX Business. “You could say their economy is slowing down as a result of the trade war, but it has been slowing down every year since 2010.”
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What It Takes To Make Clothes In The USA
Production rapidly shifted away from the U.S. in the 1990s, when about half of the nation’s clothing was domestically manufactured, says Pietra Rivoli, an economist at Georgetown University and author of “The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.”
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Bellevue-Based T-Mobile Hauled Into Court Over Mega-Merger
“Critics of the pending merger like economist Hal Singer, an anti-trust expert at Georgetown University, argue price hikes are likely coming for low-income consumers like Atkins if the merger goes through. “You have two carriers who really focus on the prepaid segment – that’s Sprint and T-Mobile, Singer said, “and so it’s just basic economics that if you go from a duopoly to a monopoly prices are going to higher.””
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