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When it comes to keeping charlatans out of high-skilled professions like medicine or financial services, regulatory barriers such as licensing or certification could result in higher prices for consumers, according to a study co-authored by Wharton’s Jules H. van Binsbergen.
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A new study co-authored by Wharton’s Santiago Gallino has a clear message for online retailers: Clean up that slow-loading website or risk losing sales.
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In the Stanford Computational Antitrust Journal, Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and professor of political science, and Alicia Lai explore machine-learning algorithms’ potential role in antitrust regulation.
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Doing away with state and local levies would bring more relief for prices at the pump, a Penn Wharton Budget Model study found. Economist Zheli He prepared the study with Xiaoyue Sun, senior analyst, under the direction of Richard Prisinzano, director of policy analysis.
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Wharton’s Benjamin Keys explains why higher mortgage interest rates are discouraging home buyers, but not for long.
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According to Wharton legal studies and business ethics professor Kevin Werbach, the Biden administration’s executive order to develop a national policy on cryptocurrency and digital assets is an important first step in setting some guardrails around a global market now worth more than $3 trillion.
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Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, recently published “Race,” a chapter in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, created by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. Roberts’ chapter intertwines the subjects of two of Roberts’ seminal works, “Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century” and “Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty.”
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The Wharton Global Youth Program is preparing to launch its first Essentials of Innovation program for high school students. Wry, a management professor at Wharton, offers a sneak peek into the nuances of innovative thinking and how he designed the program.
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The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School honors the legacy of Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the Law School, with the introduction of the inaugural class of Sadie Scholars: Kanyinsola Ajayi, Rheem Brooks, and Angel Reed.
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While his country is in crisis, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is emerging as a masterful communicator and charismatic leader whose management style is reminiscent of some of the greatest statesmen in history, says Wharton’s Michael Useem.
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