Housing Mitchmatch and Family Living
A new study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University finds that the artificially constrained supply of housing in urban areas makes it more difficult for families [...]
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 [...]
Hedging, Risk Management and Capitalization
Hedging, usually done through the use of derivative securities, is an important way for banks to manage risk in their investments. If, say, interest rates were to rise and the [...]
Exaggerating Risks from Nurse Practitioners
A pending bill in Pennsylvania, SB 25, would allow nurse practitioners to have independent scope of practice, that is, one free of physician supervision, after a three-year, 3,600 hour collaboration [...]
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 [...]
NYT Editorial Board calls for Higher Capital Requirements
The problem with the financial system is not necessarily one of too much or too little regulation, but misregulation--our system is designed with implicit and explicit bailouts that enable leverage. [...]
It’s Not All Bad: “Patent Trolls” and Innovation
Almost nothing in the world is in every way, shape, and form, bad. (Even The Phantom Menace gave us this glorious review from “Mr. Plinkett.”) A new NBER paper identifies [...]
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 [...]