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Regulation

Book Excerpts

Antimonopoly Banking After the New Deal

Peter Conti-Brown
The following is an excerpt from "Private Finance, Public Power: A History of Bank Supervision in America" by Peter Conti-Brown and Sean H. Vanatta, now out at Princeton University Press. 
Book Reviews

Is the US Bankruptcy System Morally Bankrupt?

Anat Admati
Anat R. Admati reviews Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal (2024) by Melissa B. Jacoby.
Commentary

Financial Regulators Must Pursue a Multidisciplinary Approach to New Technology

Claudia Biancotti
Crypto assets and social media are changing how finance operates. Uncertainty around the future of AI is affecting financial markets. Claudia Biancotti argues that regulators must expand their range of expertise and pursue a multidisciplinary approach to protecting society against the potential negative spillovers from these developments.
Commentary

The House Budget Bill Is One Big Beautiful Boon for Code Cartels

Meher Sethi
Meher Sethi argues that a little-noticed provision in the federal budget recently passed by the House will gut state laws protecting consumers from algorithmic price-fixing.
Commentary

How Media Concentration in the Age of Radio Prefigured Today’s Big Tech Debate

Richard R. John
In the 1930s, staffers at the newly established Federal Communications Commission devised a novel rationale for limiting network power in radio, telephony, and the press. While much has changed since the “age of radio,” the concerns they raised inform the present-day debate over the control that social media platforms exert over public discourse, writes Richard R. John.
Commentary

Don’t Dismantle America’s Audit Regulator—It’s a Strategic Asset Against China

Karthik Ramanna
Congress is considering eliminating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the independent federal agency that “audits the auditors.” Karthik Ramanna and Nemit Shroff write...
Book Excerpts

China’s Regulatory Balancing Act

Angela Zhang
The following is an excerpt from Angela Zhang's recent book, High Wire, out at Oxford University Press. Please join the Stigler Center on April 3 at 6:30-7:30 pm CT for a conversation with Zhang, where she'll discuss High Wire with Financial Times' China Technology Correspondent Eleanor Olcott. You can register for the livestream of the event here.
Commentary

US Deregulation Should Target Occupational Delicensing Next

Ray Ball
State occupational-licensing requirements have ballooned over the past decades to cover seemingly nonsensical professions, raising barriers to entry and costs for consumers. Ray Ball, S.P. Kothari, and Andrew Sutherland argue that the current deregulatory movement in the United States should target these regulations next.
ESG, Corporate Governance & Future of the Firm

Finding the Right Mix of Corporate and Individual Liability To Deter Organizational Misconduct

Jennifer Arlen
In recent research, Jennifer Arlen and Lewis A. Kornhauser develop a new model to understand how countries should approach and balance corporate and individual...
Big Tech

The TikTok Ban Is a Case Study in American Political Economy 101

Utsav Gandhi
Utsav Gandhi relates recent developments in the American government’s ban on TikTok and shows how the case maps over broader debates about conflicts between...
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