New study estimates that the total costs of America’s flawed financial system–rents, misallocation costs, and the costs of the 2008 crisis–will add up to...
New study by researchers at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University highlights the need to rethink taxi regulations.
“The natural progress of things,” Jefferson...
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...
If the large mutual funds are out to improve governance, why do they condone, if not encourage, seemingly excessive and performance-insensitive compensation packages? A new...
If lawmakers want to improve the dietary choices of Americans, the first thing they need to recognize is that the problem is not information.
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Regulation and reputation are not independent of each other. Regulation can substitute, crowd out, or even implement the power of reputational concerns. A better understanding...