Only a small segment of the physician population has been formally disciplined. According to a 1999 Institute of Medicine report, those sanctioned are health care professionals who “may be incompetent, [...]
Many communities across the country face affordable housing challenges. An increasing number of communities are considering inclusionary zoning as a response. Inclusionary zoning programs, which require developers to sell a [...]
A new survey of over 2000 jurisdictions across all major housing markets in the US documents how regulation of residential building varies across space. New evidence on what a `typical' [...]
To augment its voice in the GSE-reform debate, Countrywide dispensed favors to VIPs who it believed might be worthwhile to the company. This group of borrowers included legislators, congressional staffers, [...]
Thus, allow me to suggest a couple of “second-best” options that may have a better chance of making a more immediate impact.First, conduct periodic occupational licensing reviews. In addition to [...]
Since 2003, EFF has championed an alternative approach that gets artists paid while making file sharing legal: voluntary collective licensing. The concept is simple: the music industry forms several "collecting [...]
Public opposition is determined by the political climate of a given city and how reactive residents are to certain types of development and taxation. Truth-in-Taxation has played a large role [...]
Office space in Britain is the most expensive in the world and regulatory constraints are the obvious explanation. We estimate the ‘regulatory tax’ for 14 British and 8 continental European [...]
Members of licensed occupations benefit from legal standards that limit entry into their professions. Is it ethical for these professionals to give political support to these standards? I examine the [...]
Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes, which doesn’t appear to reflect any lack of [...]