theory that the 1866 Post Roads Act contributed to increasing contestability and consumer welfare …

The Sherman Act establishes free competition as the rule governing interstate trade. Banning private restraints cannot …, posing an obstacle to achieving Congress’s goal to protect free competition. The Sherman Act would thus override … invoked federalism and state sovereignty to justify Parker’s state action doctrine. Some suggest that preemption would violate …

wasteful influence activities. We show that firms with more levels of hierarchy may experience lower influence costs than less …

Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …