News and Commentary In The Gazette, Colorado woman and former prisoner at the Denver Women's Correctional Facility discusses her successful transition from prison life to contributing member of society. She discusses [...]
News and Commentary I am interviewed in Bloomberg Law discussing the newest text of the TRIPS waiver on COVID-related intellectual property. In my view, the narrowing of the scope of [...]
This article presents a brief update through 2019 of the author’s previous quantitative study of all reported federal court opinions that applied the Copyright Act’s four-factor test for copyright fair [...]
We estimate the effect of patent protection on follow-on investments in corporate scientific research. We exploit a new method for identifying an exogenous reduction in the protection a granted patent [...]
News and Commentary Writing for Greater Greater Washington, Wyatt Gordon discusses a new "anti-NIMBY" law soon to go into effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The law makes it far [...]
News and Commentary Writing in opposition of universal licensing recognition is Marta Zaniewski. She makes the basic point that universal licensing recognition may lead to problems (citing the Texas power [...]
Personal appearance professionals in the United States — such as barbers, cosmetologists, and manicurists — must typically be licensed. These licensing requirements vary from state to state, and they are [...]
News and Commentary A blog post from Lauren Anderson and Francisco Covas discuss the implications of suggestions made by several regulators and academics to require regulation of bank capital requirements [...]
Corporate bond markets proved remarkably resilient against a sharp contraction caused by the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. We document three important findings: (1) bond issuance increased immediately when the contraction hit, [...]
The 2008 financial crisis exposed a longstanding problem in financial regulation: traditional regulatory strategies tend to be procyclical. That is, regulatory tools—most notably, bank capital requirements—incentivize excessive credit growth during [...]