#Competition to Screen Live Sport Heats up: Amazon acquires rights to show Premier League games in UK ft.com/content/9f268c…

Competitive challenges facing UK retail #energy markets ft.com/content/751df3…

Is the internet bad for democracy? - Chicago Booth Review on my research with Tommaso Valletti Tommaso Valletti and Mattia Nardotto review.chicagobooth.edu/economics/2018… via Chicago Booth Review

How UK pubs are fighting to escape vertical restraints to procure beer ft.com/content/108fdc…

Watchdog warns #merger of credit bureaus could hurt financial #innovation ft.com/content/f834d1…

The effect of #regulation on #competition in mortgage markets, based on the excellent research of Matteo Benetton

The decline of US local newspapers wsj.com/graphics/local… via WSJ Graphics. Similar patterns in the UK, with some implications for local politics doi.org/10.1093/restud…, in my research with Tommaso Valletti and Mattia Nardotto

New York City Bans Broker Fees for Tenants nyti.ms/373SDhq My research with H. Bar-Isaac on how broker fees affect rental markets in Manhattan ideas.repec.org/a/eee/juecon/v…

Drops in used-car prices and new-car sales. Consistent with my work with Alessandro Gavazza, when a recessionary shock hits lower-income households harder, secondary markets transmit the shock and amplify its effects on new durable purchases. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

Why on earth would the world’s biggest independent oil trader be getting into the used-car business? trib.al/2q44SJh

Used-car prices are surging in the UK trib.al/voPQrau

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP16456 Monetary Policy and Mortgage Pricing Matteo Benetton Matteo Benetton Haas School of Business, Alessandro Gavazza Alessandro Gavazza LSE LSE Department of Economics, Paolo Surico London Business School ow.ly/TxGY50FSun4 #CEPR_FE, #CEPR_IO, #CEPR_MEF

Mortgage rates, origination fees, and the transmission of monetary policy dlvr.it/S7F060

SWP 948 by Jack Fisher (LSE), Alessandro Gavazza (LSE), Lu Liu, Tarun Ramadorai (both Imperial) + Jagdish Tripathy (BoE) looks at how “teaser rates” for mortgages can lead to cross-subsidies from the less sophisticated the more sophisticated participants. bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP17491 Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market Jack Fisher LSE Department of Economics, Alessandro Gavazza LSE, Lu Liu Penn The Wharton School, @TRamadorai Imperial Business School, Jagdish Tripathy Bank of England ow.ly/G9ys50K3bL7 #CEPR_FE, #CEPR_IO

Big brands lose #pricing power in battle for consumers ft.com/content/1b802f…

The energy industry: turning #data into oil ft.com/content/192349…

The death of UK local #newspapers bbc.com/news/uk-431064…

How #Technology is Fuelling Consolidation of US Car Dealerships wsj.com/articles/car-d…

Bond trading: #technology finally disrupts a $50tn market  ft.com/content/67e48a…