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Regulatory Capture

Why is Medical Marijuana Still Not Accepted in All 50 States? Ask George Stigler

Asher Schechter
A new working paper by University of Georgia researchers shows that medical marijuana leads to sharp drops in the number of prescriptions for...
Regulatory Capture

Whistleblowers are Motivated by Moral Reasons Above Monetary Ones

Adam Waytz
Studies consistently show that whistleblowers are motivated by moral reasons. The primacy of moral concerns makes sense, considering how frequently whistleblowers face exclusion and retaliation rather...
Regulatory Capture

SEC and Revolving Doors: Q&A with Eric Ben-Artzi, the Deutsche Bank Whistleblower Who Rejected a Multimillion Dollar Award

Guy Rolnik
ProMarket interviews Eric Ben-Artzi, the former Deutsche Bank risk officer turned whistleblower who rejected an $8.25 million award from the SEC.  In May 2015, Deutsche Bank...
Regulatory Capture

Combatting External and Internal Regulatory Capture

Reeve T. Bull
External and internal capture may be reduced through a more logical division of labor between Congress and agencies. In these hyper-partisan times, one is hard-pressed...
Regulatory Capture

Regulators as Validators

Roy Shapira
Special interest groups can use their influence over regulation to water down not just potential legal sanctions but also potential reputational sanctions. What deters corporate...
Regulatory Capture

The Elusiveness of Regulatory Capture

Cary Coglianese
Regulatory capture is hard to pin down, its elusiveness stemming from four principal factors. Nearly everyone sees regulatory capture – and rightly disdains it. And...
Regulatory Capture

Regulatory Capture is Not “Inevitable”

William K. Black
“Capture” has become a self-fulfilling prophecy of economists who turn their students into sure-to-fail regulators. A Wall Street Journal editorial asserted the “inevitability” of...
Regulatory Capture

Prosecuting Corporate Criminals

Jed S. Rakoff
Prosecutions of individual corporate criminals can, in fact, be successful—and are critical for attaining justice. It is difficult to escape the inference that the Great...
Regulatory Capture

Regulatory Capture, Ancient and Modern

Alissa Ardito
Regulatory capture's antecedents in political thought—which date back to ancient Greece—inform the modern concept. Until recently, the term regulatory capture seemed stale, a mid-20th century...
Regulatory Capture

Making it Look Like a Struggle

Roy Shapira
 For capture to be sustainable, the regulator has to find ways to be perceived as being tough on the regulated without really hurting them. The...
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