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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
John Paul MacDuffie of the Wharton School says that Tesla hopes to keep valuations high by competing on the appeal of their entire system, not just the product.
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In his new book “The Perennials,” Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School argues that humans are ready for a post-generational society.
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A study co-authored by Daniel Garrett of the Wharton School finds that Texas municipalities will pay $300-$500 million in additional interest within the first eight months of an anti-ESG law.
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A co-authored study by economists at Penn created a theoretical model to show how competition can lead firms to monopoly.
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PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp says that food delivery companies succeed because of their size but remain vulnerable to competitors due to a mutual lack of technological advantage.
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PIK Professor Herbert Hovenkamp said government subsidies for new industry entrants are usually not “a market solution” to high prices. “Eventually, you want to establish firms that can stand on their own two feet,” he said.
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Itay Goldstein of the Wharton School said many people invest in cryptocurrency because they’re afraid of being left behind. However, he says, “the problem with cryptocurrencies is you really don’t know what the price should be. In some sense, almost anything could be justified.”
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing said if policy makers had studied what does and doesn’t motivate people to get vaccinated, they would have probably rolled out COVID-19 vaccine mandates sooner.
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Alison Buttenheim of the School of Nursing spoke about ways to persuade people to get the COVID-19 vaccine. She said one effective method for changing minds is ongoing conversation “with a trusted peer who can listen to where you’re coming from, and acknowledge your concerns are valid, and perhaps quite slowly chip away at outstanding concerns you might have.”
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Matthew Bidwell of the Wharton School said Amazon’s victory over unionization efforts in Bessemer, Alabama, could discourage similar campaigns. “If you think you can try as hard as you like but you’re unlikely to succeed, you’re probably not going to put in the effort,” Bidwell says.