Politics and Policy
What Will It Take to Create Competitive Digital Markets?
Tech giants have been skirmishing almost daily with regulators and courts about their outsized power over our digital lives. Yale SOM economist Fiona Scott Morton recently published a collection of essays offering approaches to creating real competition in digital markets and making them work better for consumers.
Can Operations Research Help Find Terrorists?
Yale SOM’s Edward H. Kaplan uses queuing algorithms to estimate how many terror cells exist and determine how to efficiently combat them.
Time to End Confrontations Over Federal Borrowing Limits
In a Foreign Policy op-ed, Yale SOM Dean Emeritus Jeffrey Garten writes that the recurrent threats to force a U.S. debt default could end in catastrophe, and it’s time for Congress to end them permanently.
The Nobel Prize in Economics and the Dangers of Foreign Aid
Professor A. Mushfiq Mobarak argues that claims about the impact of foreign aid should be tested with careful empirical study.
Are Public-Private Partnerships the Best Way to Provide Government Services?
HEC’s Bertrand Quelin says that such projects are generally successful—but they aren’t always perceived that way.
How Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership Affect Global Business?
Global Network Perspectives asked experts across the Global Network for Advanced Management how the trade deal would impact their countries.
Does the Fed Need a Foreign Policy?
As the Federal Reserve prepares to raise interest rates—a move that will be felt globally—Professor Jeffrey E. Garten outlines a foreign policy agenda for the Fed.
Can the National Defense Be a Global Business?
Vivek Lall, the head of global strategy for General Atomics, says that the industry, responding to many of the same pressures as other businesses, is becoming increasingly globalized.
Putting the Iran Nuclear Deal in Context
Professor Paul Bracken, a leading security strategist and author of The Second Nuclear Age, discusses the Iran nuclear deal.
Will Openness and Transparency Strengthen Democracy in the EU?
HEC Paris's Alberto Alemanno on what the EU's commitment to openness means in practice.
Is Making All Banks Follow the Same Rules a Bad Idea?
Standardization. Harmonization. Coordination. They all sound like good ideas. But in a lecture at Yale SOM, Roberta Romano, the Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, argued that the convergence of banking regulations brought about by the Basel Accords may have had the unintended effect of fueling the financial crisis.
