News and Commentary An article in Harvard Business Review debunks three myths about China's IP regime. The PRC's forced technology transfer policies, while abused in the past, have been dialed back [...]
News and Commentary A piece from The Atlantic discusses the breakthrough Minneapolis 2040, which essentially abolished single-family zoning in Minneapolis. One of the most successful strategies was pointing out how sky-high [...]
News and Commentary Read this Christian Science Monitor piece on the Louisiana hair braiders that are filing suit, with the help of the Institute for Justice, to challenge the State's [...]
News and Commentary An op-ed in The Hill by Laura Kodres argues that 10 years after Dodd-Frank, we need to rethink the legislation. Specifically, she argues for reexamining the Volcker Rule, the [...]
News and Commentary An article in IAM discusses the global landscape for patent litigation. The rules and challenges associated with patent litigation vary from country to country (in this case, [...]
Banks across the US are currently just shy of 11.5% financed by equity . As part of a general upward trend, this is undoubtedly a positive development, though most experts [...]
The current trade war is based on a number of fundamental misunderstandings about the positive-sum nature of international trade and the costs of protectionism. In one relatively minor but characteristically [...]
The Copyright Alternatives in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act) has cleared both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, and it now heads to the floor of both chambers for a [...]
News and Commentary The Cato Institute's Diego Zuluaga wrote a post about a rule-making letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A rule exempting GSE-backed mortgages from debt-to-income ratio rules [...]
We examine the cleansing effect of financial crises via their contribution to the exit of inefficient US commercial banks from 1984 to 2013. We find a larger increase in the [...]