November 29, 2009

Announcement: TOTM Blog Symposium on the Law and Economics of Credit Cards

Geoffrey A. Manne

Truth on the Market is pleased to announce its fourth blog symposium: The Law and Economics of Interchange Fees and Credit Card Markets For the uninitiated, the interchange fee is…

October 21, 2009

Forget California. Command and control in spades at the Treasury

Geoffrey A. Manne

Well, he warned us.  But now that it’s here it sounds so incredible. Under the plan, which will be announced in the next few days by the Treasury Department, the…

October 8, 2009

Evans and Wright on The Effect of the CFPA Act of 2009 on Consumer Credit

Joshua Wright

David Evans (University of Chicago; University College of London) and I have posted to SSRN our draft, The Effect of the CFPA Act of 2009 on Consumer Credit. Here’s the…

September 30, 2009

A bright spot in the bleak financial industry regulatory firmament

Geoffrey A. Manne

Between the various power grabs and dubious regulatory proposals (each more dubious than the last!) from the likes of Geithner, Bernanke, Frank (.pdf), Dodd, etc., etc. you’d be excused for…

September 20, 2009

Wright & Zywicki on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009

Joshua Wright

I noted last week that my colleague (and Volokh Conspirator) Todd Zywicki and I had written an essay, published in a Fin Reg 21 Symposium on the Consumer Financial Protection…

September 2, 2009

Zywicki on the Consumer Financial Protection Agency on Reason TV

Joshua Wright

Available here.Posted in economics, financial regulation

August 19, 2009

The optimal level of risk is not zero

Geoffrey A. Manne

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: All of this hand wringing over executive compensation seems to exist in a parallel world where corporate executives have no…

July 23, 2009

Too Big To Fail as an Antitrust Concept

Joshua Wright

There has been a lot of talk recently about the possibility that lax antitrust gave rise to the financial crisis or that antitrust could be used as a proactive weapon…

April 9, 2009

My interview with Bill Isaac

Geoffrey A. Manne

Over at finreg21–a new site devoted to news, analysis and commentary on financial regulatory reform with which I am affiliated–I interview Bill Isaac, former Chairman of the FDIC (during the…