Clark Center Forum

 

 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements:

A: Employers that discriminate in hiring will be at a competitive disadvantage, if their customers do not care about their mix of employees, compared with firms that do not discriminate.

B: Rising market wages are an important reason — over and above any changes in medical technology, social norms or preferences — why family sizes have fallen over the past century in rich countries. 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

Considering both distributional effects and changes in efficiency, it is a good idea to let companies that send video or other content to consumers pay more to Internet service providers for the right to send that traffic using faster or higher quality service. 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

The recent oversubscribed debt issues of Greece and Portugal suggest that sovereign default by any euro area country is unlikely in the foreseeable future. 

The American Economic Association has awarded Chicago Booth’s Matthew Gentzkow the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal. The prestigious Clark Medal is awarded annually to the “American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” In awarding this prestigious prize to Professor Gentzkow, […] 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

If the NCAA let colleges pay athletes with more than scholarships (which currently may cover tuition, books, room and board), then top colleges in men’s basketball and football would pay most athletes substantial sums beyond full scholarships. 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

Past experience suggests that economic sanctions do little to deter the target countries from their course of action. 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statement:

A market that allows payment for human kidneys should be established on a trial basis to help extend the lives of patients with kidney disease. 

This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements:

A: Advancing automation has not historically reduced employment in the United States.

B: Information technology and automation are a central reason why median wages have been stagnant in the US over the past decade, despite rising productivity.