News and Commentary From the White House, President Biden's nominations for key regulatory and investor protection positions were announced. At Reuters, Jonnelle Marte reports on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's [...]
News and Commentary For The Hill, Benjamin McMichael draws on his recent research to make the case for discontinuing nurse practitioner (NP) supervision requirements: "Allowing NPs to practice without physician [...]
News and Commentary At Reason, Sasha Volokh explores in detail the constitutionality of universities' influence on zoning. In Spur, Michael Lane heralds the flurry of housing-friendly legislation signed in California [...]
News and Commentary Ed Glaeser and David Cutler offer an essay in the Wall Street Journal on mobility through the US, adapted from their new book. "It’s a troubling sign [...]
News and Commentary At Landscape Architecture Magazine, Stephen Zacks lays out recent history in licensing of landscape architecture and offers a perspective: "In a sense, professional licensure belongs to a [...]
News and Commentary At the American Action Forum, Thomas Wade analyzes the FHFA's decision to end policies limiting government-sponsored enterprises from buying risky mortgages. "In what is primarily a problem [...]
News and Commentary In Full Stack Economics, Timothy Lee summarizes recent papers finding desirable cascading effects of new luxury housing: "Often, the person who rents the new apartment is moving [...]
News & Commentary In the Newnan-Times Herald, Marc Hyden discusses occupational licensing in Georgia: "Rather than creating and maintaining illogical impediments to work, policymakers would be wise to re-examine occupational [...]
News and Commentary In an article in The Washington Post, Rachel Siegel covers the state of play in Biden's pick for the Federal Reserves Vice Chair for Supervision, alternatively known [...]
A growing body of empirical analyses, including firm-level studies, industry-level studies, individual country-studies, and broad cross country comparisons, demonstrate a strong positive link between the functioning of the financial system [...]