This Week in Financial Regulation, April 11th
Rent Check A new NBER paper looks at how stress testing of central counterparts should better incorporate the "topography" of the financial sector with CCPs at the middle. News [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, April 10th
Rent Check What happens when you restrict the supply of new apartments? Wealthy single-residents move to more spacious apartments designed for families, which drives up their rent. News and [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, April 9th
Rent Check A recent essay for the National Bureau of Economic Research explains how some innovations may not come about, either due to regulations that lead to lag times for [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, April 5th
News and Commentary Third Way's Ryan Bhandari points to zoning reform as one policy space that can help slow the economic migration to the Coasts. It is a crucial step [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, April 4th
Rent Check A Pennsylvania bill that would expand scope of practice for nurse practitioners is, predictably, facing attacks from doctors. The critics miss the mark, though, as they conflate the [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, April 3rd
Rent Check Which banks hedge their risky investments? A new paper shows a positive correlation between the level of capital a bank has and how willing they are to hedge their [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, April 2nd
Rent Check A new paper finds mixed effects from non-practicing entities, also called "patent trolls." While they are able to serve as middlemen for firms with IP that they likely [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, March 29th
Rent Check A recent paper explains why the average profit for landlords is significantly higher in low-income neighborhoods than it is in middle- and high-income ones. News and Commentary The Center [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, March 28th
Rent Check What's the best way to convince people to support Occupational licensing reform? Despite being good policy, a scope-of-practice reform bill in Florida is unpopular among voters. News [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, March 27th
Rent Check What should happen with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Their conservatorship status gets in the way of making sound policy and poses a threat to the rule of [...]