This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 24th
News and Commentary Emma Ockerman writes for Vice News about former inmate Dario Gurrola who risked his life fighting wildfires as an inmate but is now banned from pursuing a career [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 23rd
News and Commentary Kate Davidson reports for The Wall Street Journal that Andrew Olmem, Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, has left The White House. Olmem was a key figure in [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 19th
News and Commentary Leah Brooks, Genevieve Denoeux, and Jenny Schuetz write in a post for the Brookings Institution blog The Avenue about the Washington, D.C. region's need for more housing [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 18th
News and Commentary The Boston Herald reports that Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, is seeking to create a police certification process in his state. The article says that Massachusetts [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 16th
News and Commentary Frank Partnoy writes in The Atlantic about his vision for what a COVID collapse of the U.S. financial system and points to the rise of collateralized loan [...]
This Week in Land-Use Regulation, June 12th
News and Commentary Harvard economist Ed Glaeser and former New York City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett were interviewed on To The Point, a podcast from KCRW, an NPR affiliate in [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, June 11th
News and Commentary The Buckeye Institute submitted written testimony to a committee of the Ohio House of Representatives supporting the passage of House Bill 673 which would take steps to [...]
This Week in Financial Regulation, June 10th
News and Commentary Zack Colman and Katy O’Donnell write at Politico about the threat that climate change poses to the American mortgage market. They find that the potential cost to [...]
Does Winning a Patent Race Lead to More Follow-On Innovation?
Competition between firms to invent and patent an idea, or “patent racing,” has been much discussed in theory, but seldom analyzed empirically. This article introduces an empirical way to identify [...]
The Role of Government and Private Institutions in Credit Cycles in the U.S. Mortgage Market
We show that the distribution of combined loan-to-value ratios (CLTVs) for purchase mortgages in the U.S. has been remarkably stable over the last 25 years. But there was a dramatic [...]