Hurricane Katrina struck the city of New Orleans in August of 2005, devastating the built environment and displacing nearly one-third of the city’s residents. Despite the considerable literature that exists [...]
We use variation in mortgage modifications to disentangle the impact of reducing long-term obligations with no change in short-term payments (“wealth”), and reducing short-term payments with approximately no change in [...]
This Article analyzes divergences in decisionmaking trends while examiners undergo the Signatory Authority Review Program (the “Program”). The Program is the process by which examiners are promoted to the position [...]
What are the quantitative effects of countercyclical capital buffers (CCyB)? I study this question in the context of a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector that is subject to [...]
Retail clinics are largely staffed by nurse practitioners (NPs) and are a popular destination for nonemergent care. We examined if there was a relationship between NP practice regulations and retail [...]
Discusses the moral and ethical aspects of intellectual property rights. Philosophical concept of intellectual property; Arguments in support of intellectual property; Necessity of property for the development of the personality; [...]
This Article advocates the restoration of the natural law to our copyright jurisprudence. Although eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers were keenly aware of copyright's natural law dimensions, modern copyright jurisprudence [...]
The law and economics of intellectual property has long rested on a foundational, if implicit, premise: that IP law is best understood by studying how legal rules operate in actual [...]
Taking works off copyright promotes their availability, but it also allows generic entry to dissipate producer surplus. This paper examines the effect of a copyright on the availability and price [...]
We argue that when innovation is “sequential” (so that each successive invention builds in an essential way on its predecessors) and “complementary” (so that each potential innovator takes a different [...]