Search for: "Michael Simkovic" Results 1 - 20 of 389
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
16 Nov 2023, 9:05 pm by Elizabeth Martinez
In a recent paper, Francesco Trebbi, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Miao Ben Zhang, a professor at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business, and Michael Simkovic, a professor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, determined that regulation costs American businesses $289 billion annually. [read post]
8 Nov 2023, 7:56 am by Michael Simkovic
University leaders have gotten into the habit of commenting on world affairs on behalf of their universities. [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 1:00 am by Michael Simkovic
My previous posts have documented a very large 24 percent decline in real pay for law professors over the last decade, from 2013 to 2022... [read post]
2 Nov 2023, 2:00 am by Michael Simkovic
On average, real pay for law professors has plummeted in the last 10 years by 24 percent.* A large decline in real terms is also... [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post, Law Professor Pay Plummeted 30% This Decade While College President Pay Rose 20%: Michael Simkovic (USC; Google Scholar), Double-Digit Drop in Real Law Professor Pay Confirmed by Second Data Source: My previous post presented data showing that law professor pay has declined 24 percent... [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 1:30 am by Michael Simkovic
My previous post presented data showing that law professor pay has declined 24 percent in real terms from 2013 to 2022 using figures from the... [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 10:00 am by Paul Caron
Michael Simkovic (USC; Google Scholar), Law Professor Pay Plummeted Over 30 Percent This Decade Amid Declining Enrollments: Nationally, pay for law professors has plummeted by more than 30 percent in real terms since 2013 according to data from the Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. [read post]
18 Oct 2023, 1:30 am by Michael Simkovic
Nationally, pay for law professors has plummeted by more than 30 percent in real terms since 2013 according to data from the Department of Labor... [read post]
12 Oct 2023, 7:31 am by Michael Simkovic
Abraham Lincoln managed his feelings of anger by writing “hot letters”, which he would then set aside until his emotions cooled. [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
Many graduates of elite law schools work in large corporate law firms either initially or after a clerkship. [read post]
19 Sep 2023, 5:00 am by Michael Simkovic
In August I warned that a perennial anti-higher-education narrative that was resurfacing in the conservative press could soon go mainstream, as it did in the... [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Michael Simkovic (USC; Google Scholar), Law School Deans Become Target of Conservative Media Ire: [L]aw school deans' discussions about ways of continuing affirmative action after the ban are providing fodder to conservative media organizations who are attempting to depict academic institutions as lawless, duplicitous, and hostile to poor whites (and... [read post]
23 Aug 2023, 10:26 am by Michael Simkovic
In my previous discussion of the Supreme Court's affirmative action ban, I noted that: With a wink and a nod, the Supreme Court told universities... [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 10:21 am by Michael Simkovic
The Supreme Court's recent ruling that Harvard and UNC's affirmative action programs violate the equal protection clause has been described by many as a blow... [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 8:00 am by Paul Caron
Michael Simkovic (USC; Google Scholar) presents Pigouvian Contracts (with Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA)) at Northwestern today as part of its Advanced Topics in Taxation Colloquium hosted by Gregg Polsky: Pigouvian taxes are often used to limit environmental externalities such as pollution. [read post]
10 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
Wednesday, March 15: Michael Simkovic (USC; Google Scholar) will present Pigouvian Contracts (with Meirav Furth-Matzkin (UCLA)) as part of the Northwestern Advanced Topics in Taxation Colloquium. [read post]