June 2, 2012

Wise and Timely Counsel from John Taylor, F.A. Hayek, and Reagan’s Economic Advisers

Thomas Lambert

In light of yesterday’s abysmal jobs report, yesterday’s Wall Street Journal op-ed by Stanford economist John B. Taylor (Rules for America’s Road to Recovery) is a must-read.  Taylor begins by identifying what…

Financial Regulation

April 2, 2012

Potential Problems with an FDA Model for Regulating Financial Products

Thomas Lambert

New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgenson is arguing for a “pre-clearance”  approach to regulating new financial products: The Food and Drug Administration vets new drugs before they reach the market. But…

Financial Regulation

January 30, 2012

FTC Mobile Payments Workshop on April 26, 2012

Joshua Wright

The Federal Trade Commission conference announcement is below; note that public comments on the date of the conference.  This is an important space and should attract some excellent speakers.  The…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

October 14, 2011

A Macro Conference

Paul Rubin

I was invited to attend the Financial Times Global Conference “The View From the Top: The Future of America” and since I was in New York anyway I thought it…

Financial Regulation

September 29, 2011

Conference on the Economics and Regulation of Payment Card Interchange Fees

Kristian Stout

Coinciding with the release of the paper, ICLE, in conjunction with George Mason University's Mercatus Center, will be hosting a conference in Washington, DC, next week on the interchange fee…

Financial Regulation

April 14, 2011

Unconscious Parallelism or Collusion? Libor Edition

Joshua Wright

News comes that the DOJ and SEC are “examining whether some of the world’s biggest banks colluded to manipulate a key interest rate before and during the financial crisis, affecting…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 9, 2011

Small Business Financing Post-Crisis

Michael Sykuta

Tomorrow I will be attending a symposium on small business financing sponsored by the Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal‘s at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University. I’m…

Financial Regulation

December 21, 2010

The Limits of Behavioral Law and Economics, Australia Edition

Joshua Wright

At the excellent Core Economics blog, Andreas Ortman discusses an Australian policy debate involving the Review of the Governance, Efficiency, Structure and Operation of Australia’s Superannuation System (also known as the Cooper…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

December 17, 2010

Lynn Stout on “criminogenic” hedge funds and insider trading

Geoffrey A. Manne

Lynn Stout, writing in the Harvard Business Review’s blog, claims that hedge funds are uniquely “criminogenic” environments.  (Not surprisingly, Frank Pasquale seems reflexively to approve): My research, shows that people’s…

Financial Regulation