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Regulatory Capture

Preventing Regulatory Capture

Mark Calabria
When a regulation’s benefits exceed its costs, simplicity and interdisciplinary processes are essential to reducing capture. Regulatory capture arises when regulatory decisions advance private interests...
Regulatory Capture

Challenges in Measuring Regulatory Capture

Daniel Carpenter
We as a society have failed to settle upon what we think are the measurements, the correlates, the red flags, and the warning signs...
Regulatory Capture

Fighting Regulatory Capture in the 21st Century

Mike Lee
It should come as no surprise that the movement against regulatory capture is gaining momentum at this particular moment in our nation’s history. It is...
Regulatory Capture

The 'Argumentum a Crise': So Powerful, So Prone to Misuse

Luca Enriques
Since the financial crisis and the related euro debt crisis, the use of the argumentum a crise has been ubiquitous. A more selective use...
Money in Politics

The Real Lesson From Brexit

Luigi Zingales
A widespread mistrust of experts can lead to political decisions, like Brexit, that might have negative consequences for the very people who vote for them. How...
Regulatory Capture

The Attacks on RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan: Lessons from Stanley Fischer as a Central Banker

Guy Rolnik
India and Israel show that fighting crony capitalism in countries where a small group of people has huge political and financial influence is sometimes...
Regulatory Capture

ProMarket Interview: “The Lobbyists and the Regulators Were Really, Socially and Culturally, the Same People”

Asher Schechter
University of Connecticut’s law professor James Kwak explains the mechanisms that drive cultural capture, and why he think it is less prevalent today. In his...
Regulatory Capture

ProMarket Interviews Bo Rothstein, Part II: On Strong Markets and Quality Government

Guy Rolnik
In the second part of ProMarket's interview with Bo Rothstein, the Swedish political scientist discusses corruption, social trust and unions. After decades in which the...
Regulatory Capture

Do Courts Have a Pro-Business Bias?

Roy Shapira
Existing evidence are not enough to determine whether courts are pro-market or pro-(incumbent)business. President Obama’s plan to nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court...
Regulatory Capture

ProMarket Interview: Bo Rothstein on the Role of Government in Market Economies

Guy Rolnik
Bo Rothstein, one of the most influential political scientists in the world today, explains how countries can become less corrupt, and why the Nordic...
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