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Pay Transparency

HANNAH SHIOHARA – NOVEMBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: KATHERINE MCKERNAN Pay transparency, which refers to the degree of openness between a company and its employees about how much people are compensated, and Continue Reading

Posted On : November 21, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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The Future of Cooperatives: Policy and Sectors in Need

JACOB HEISLER – NOVEMBER 14TH, 2022 EDITOR: DENYSE CHAN Introduction In today’s market society, the dominant business structure consists of capitalist firms. The classic structure of capitalist companies prioritizes achieving Continue Reading

Posted On : November 14, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Twenty Years Later: An Evaluation of the Acid Rain Program of 1990

JONATHAN LI – NOVEMBER 9TH, 2022 Abstract This paper attempts to find the causal effect of phase II of the Acid Rain Program’s on SO2 emissions from US power plants Continue Reading

Posted On : November 9, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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RetroSPACtive: just what were SPACs, anyway?

AIDEN CURRAN – NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022 EDITOR: LORENE LI If you were unfortunate enough to be a regular consumer of business-related news throughout 2021, you may have noticed a common Continue Reading

Posted On : November 1, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Proliferation of Big Money in Politics: How Did We Get Here?

SID GUPTA- OCTOBER 21ST, 2022 EDITOR: THOMAS GUZMAN January 21, 2020 marked a decade since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a controversial decision that Continue Reading

Posted On : October 31, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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A Tale of Two Countries: A History of the Greek Debt Crisis

AAYUSH SINGH – OCTOBER 10TH, 2022 EDITOR: KAREENA HARGUNANI There’s a European proverb commonly heard in the continent’s politics: “fix the roof when the sun is shining.” The words are Continue Reading

Posted On : October 10, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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A Choice to Destroy Lives: The Expiration of the Expanded Child Tax Credit

AAYUSH SINGH – OCTOBER 9TH, 2022 In January of 2022, 3.7 million children fell into poverty. It was a policy choice. A few weeks earlier, Congress had failed to renew Continue Reading

Posted On : October 9, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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The Chilean Path to Where? President Boric and the Return of the Left

SAM QUATTROCIOCCHI – APRIL 11TH, 2022 EDITOR: ZACHARY HAGEN-SMITH “Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, but it will also be its grave,” declared Gabriel Boric as he launched his campaign Continue Reading

Posted On : April 11, 2022 Published By : BER staff
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Questioning the Efficacy of the Carbon Market

KAREENA HARGUNANI – NOVEMBER 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL After years of companies treating carbon emissions as a negative externality of market interactions, former governor of the Bank of England Continue Reading

Posted On : November 3, 2021 Published By : BER staff
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The Case for a Cigarette Tax

NATRAJ VAIRAVAN – OCTOBER 28th, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE   Background According to the CDC, in 2019, approximately 34.1 million adults living in the United States smoked cigarettes regularly, making Continue Reading

Posted On : October 30, 2021 Published By : BER staff

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