News and Commentary What do Andrew Yang, Ivanka Trump, and Obama's economists all have in common? Other than a passion for mathematics, they all oppose excessive occupational licensing. An article [...]
Rent Check Dan Takash has a new post critiquing the regulatory treatment of Contingent Convertible bonds. CoCos function like normal debt until the borrower becomes financially distressed, then the loan [...]
Rent Check This blog post details the profits earned by 2019's top movies. The worldwide box office totals alone have earned the films (all owned by Disney) fantastical returns, demonstrating how [...]
Rent Check John Hunt has an analysis of New York's latest package of tenant protections. The inclusionary zoning provisions, while a potential way to mitigate the (relatively) high price of [...]
Rent Check Today would have been Milton Friedman's 107th birthday. One year ago, Dan wrote a post outlining Friedman's critiques of occupational licensing; the argument is as timely today as [...]
Rent Check I have a blog post examining how the Community Reinvestment Act is inadvertently accelerating gentrification. While it was a needed amelioration for the legacies of redlining, flaws in [...]
Subsidies to homeownership have disfavored renters through regressive regulations, lavishly subsidized bigger homes, and played no small role in the most crippling financial crisis and economic downturn since the Great [...]
Last month, New York State responded to the affordable housing crisis by enacting a host of tenant protections. The law implements a wide range of changes from added eviction defenses [...]
What are the quantitative effects of countercyclical capital buffers (CCyB)? I study this question in the context of a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector that is subject to [...]
On Monday, the Utah Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional an attempt to limit malpractice suits by the state's medical board. Given this naked defense of doctors’ interests at the [...]