This Week in Financial Regulation, April 17th
Rent Check While Jamie Dimon is right that a free market system should be preferred, he is misguided in his claim that capital requirements interfere with that system. Instead, they [...]
This Week in Intellectual Property, April 16th
Rent Check Elizabeth Warren has proposed a national right to repair law for farm equipment. The New York Times editorial board argues this should be expanded to cover all third-party [...]
Supporters of Capitalism Should Support Capital (Requirements)
In his annual report, J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon gave a full-throated defense of the free-market capitalist system: There is no question that capitalism has been the most successful [...]
Protecting the Right to Repair Your iPhone
While many on the left, most notably Elizabeth Warren, are pushing for a revival of antitrust, here’s one specific policy that could rein in tech giants and has momentum for [...]
This Week in Occupational Licensing, April 12th
News and Commentary Howard Weiss-Tisman analyses a new report on the effects of Vermont joining an interstate nursing compact. While it could help the nursing shortage, the report argues that, [...]
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 [...]
Networks of Instability
While most of our discussion on financial regulation is centered on banks and bank holding companies (BHCs) it is the interconnectedness of the current financial system that is the main [...]
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 [...]
What Hinders Innovation?
In an essay for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Heidi Williams discusses her previous research on how current IP policy fails to promote (or actively hinders) innovation. First, she [...]