Research
Denise is an applied researcher – her work aims to directly influence policy-making, organizational behavior, and investor strategy. Her research has focused on market power, macroeconomics, competition policy, sustainability, and responsible investing, among other themes.
ANTITRUST, ENVIRONMENT, COLLABORATION, ESG
Antitrust and Sustainability: A Landscape Analysis
This report – a joint publication of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law – gives an overview of the broad purview of antitrust law, and the myriad and complex ways in which it intersects with and affects sustainability goals. The purpose of this report is to provoke and support engaged and informed conversation among policymakers, private firms, and the wider public around the appropriate competition policy framework which can support sustainable development broadly.
PRIVATE EQUITY, POWER, ANTITRUST, COMPETITION
The Roll-up Economy: The Business of Consolidating Industries with Serial Acquisitions
While large mergers in concentrated industries make national news and present a serious problem, the focus on headline-making mergers can ignore a potentially more concerning trend: the intentional consolidation of fragmented industries through small, “serial acquisitions…”
COMPETITION POLICY, CANADA, ONTARIO
ON360 Transition Briefings 2022 – Competition Policy: Should the Province Play a Larger Role?
Old ways of thinking about market competition and competition policy do not fit new and emerging economic developments. A collaboration between the federal government and Ontario could be enhanced to benefit the province while promoting effective competition nationwide.
STAKEHOLDER CAPITALISM, ANTITRUST, POWER, ESG
Stakeholder Capitalism’s Next Frontier: Pro- or Anti-monopoly?
Firms championed by the stakeholder capitalism movement represent some of the largest and most powerful global companies today. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, ranks #1 on JUST Capital’s most “just companies” list, but Google has also been investigated…
MARKETS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, ANTITRUST
The Other Red Tape: Market Concentration and the Rise of Private Gatekeepers
This report documents the ways dominant corporations threaten entrepreneurship and business growth and lays out how we can restructure markets to be open, fair, and competitive.
Embodied Economics
NEWSLETTER: STAY UP-TO-DATE
A newsletter exploring economic paradigms and financial systems through: Nature, Body, Power, Care, and Interconnectedness.