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Research Briefs·May 21, 2026

Why Bans Fail: Tipping Points and Australia’s Social Media Ban

Leonardo Bursztyn, Angela Duckworth, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, Filip Milojević, Christopher Roth, and Cass R. Sunstein
Roughly one in four 14-15-year-old Australian youth complied with a recent ban of social media, far below the two-thirds needed...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·Aug 19, 2025

Building Costs vs. Housing Prices: Why Construction Isn’t Driving the Crisis

Tess Vigeland and Chad Syverson
Historically, one major reason has consistently been cited for the growth in housing costs in this country: the rising cost...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Podcasts episode·Jun 11, 2025

AI, the Economy, and Public Policy

Tess Vigeland, Caroline Grossman, Anders Humlum, Sanjog Misra, Samir Mayekar, and Alex Tamkin
How is AI impacting the economy today? What might this mean for tomorrow? This episode brings you inside a discussion...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·Apr 1, 2025

Crypto’s Fatal Flaw: Trust, Scale, and the Economics of Blockchain

Tess Vigeland and Eric Budish
Crypto’s most groundbreaking innovation, permissionless consensus, may also be its greatest vulnerability. In this episode, Chicago Booth economist Eric Budish...
Topics: Financial Markets, Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·Oct 1, 2024

What Can the North Dakota Railroad War of 1905 Tell Us About Regulating Modern Monopolies?

Tess Vigeland and Chad Syverson
When the Soo Line threatened to expand into the Great Northern Railway’s territory in 1905, the two companies entered a...
Topics: Industrial Organization
Research Briefs·Sep 4, 2024

What Middle-Income Countries Can Learn from America’s Innovation System

Somik Lall and Ufuk Akcigit
The American model of innovation has long been the envy of the world. From the garage tinkerers of Silicon Valley...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·Jul 3, 2024

Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States

Tess Vigeland and Devin Pope
Using Cellphone Data to Observe Religious Worship in the United States What do location data from roughly 2.1 million cellphones...
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Research Briefs·May 17, 2024

Gaining Steam: Incumbent Lock-in and Entrant Leapfrogging

Anders Humlum and Richard Hornbeck
The adoption of new technologies can be slowed if companies become locked into alternatives that are cheaper at the outset....
Topics: Technology & Innovation
Podcasts episode·Apr 30, 2024

Fighting Traffic in Chicago: Lower Fares, More Trains, Fewer Buses

Tess Vigeland and Milena Almagro
American cities are overreliant on cars. Policies for reducing this gridlock and pollution range from changing public transit fares or...
Topics: Industrial Organization