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2022
- 12244 Intended and Unintended Effects of Nursing Home Isolation Measures
by Melo, Vitor
- 11781 RegAuthorities: The Regulations Authorities Database, A Dataset
by Ampaabeng, Kofi & Chambers, Dustin & McLaughlin, Patrick & Nelson, Jonathan
- 11691 Regulating without Zoning in Maine Towns
by Furth, Salim
- 11685 Drones, Airspace, and the Sharing Economy
by Rule, Troy
- 11667 Single-Family Zoning and Race: Evidence from the Twin Cities
by Furth, Salim & Webster, MaryJo
- 11220 The Impact of Land Use Regulation on Racial Segregation: Evidence from Massachusetts Zoning Borders
by Resseger, Matthew
- 10840 The Fate of FAIT: Salvaging the Fed’s Framework
by Beckworth, David & Horan, Patrick
- 10277 A 50-State Review of Regulatory Procedures
by Broughel, James & Bose, Feler & Baugus, Brian
2021
- 11520 Immigration and US Labor Market Outcomes
by Krol, Robert
- 11433 Rehabilitating the Opportunity Cost of Capital in Cost–Benefit Analysis
by Broughel, James
- 11423 Industry Size and Regulation: Evidence from US States
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Law, Marc
- 11284 The Expectations Gap: An Alternative Measure of Economic Slack
by Martinez, Andrew & Schibuola, Alex
- 11271 Tech Platforms and Market Power: What’s the Optimal Policy Response?
by Lambert, Thomas
- 11270 Planepooling and Air Taxis for Post-COVID Aviation
by Skorup, Brent & Graboyes, Robert
- 11209 The Effects of Immigration on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
by Krol, Robert
- 11199 Midwifery Licensing: Medicalization of Birth and Special Interests
by Hall Lilly, Lauren & Horwitz, Steven
- 11071 Nursing the Opioid Crisis
by McMichael, Benjamin
- 11027 Using Machine Learning to Capture Heterogeneity in Trade Agreements
by Baier, Scott & Regmi, Narendra
- 11020 Employee vs. Independent Worker: A Framework for Understanding Work Differences
by Palagashvili, Liya & Suarez Rocabado, Paola
- 11019 Toward a Formalization of Policy Analytics
by Chambers, Dustin
- 11018 Man vs. Machine: A Novel Evaluation of Data Analytics Using Occupational Licensing as a Case Study
by Norris, Conor & Timmons, Edward
- 11017 How to Improve Data Validation in Five Steps
by Freire, Danilo
- 11015 Democratizing Policy Analytics with AutoML
by Freire, Danilo
- 11014 Validating Readability and Complexity Metrics: A New Dataset of Before-and-After Laws
by Alschner, Wolfgang
- 11013 Measuring a Contract’s Breadth: A Text Analysis
by McCannon, Bryan & Zhou, Yang & Hall, Joshua
- 10999 The Princeton School and the Zero Lower Bound
by Sumner, Scott
- 10958 The Recovery from the Great Recession: Did the FOMC Learn the Right Lessons?
by Hetzel, Robert
- 10752 Foundations and Microfoundations: Building Houses on Regulated Land
by Furth, Salim
- 10705 Reforming Australian Monetary Policy: How Nominal Income Targeting Can Help Get the Reserve Bank Back on Track
by Kirchner, Stephen
- 10485 Regulation and Economic Growth: Evidence from British Columbia’s Experiment in Regulatory Budgeting
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Coffey, Bentley
- 10461 A Lottery for the Republic of Science: Chance, Merit, and Fairness in the Process of Awarding Research Grants
by Valdivia, Walter
- 10289 Federal Regulation and Mortality in the 50 States
by Broughel, James & Chambers, Dustin
- 10143 Women as Independent Workers in the Gig Economy
by Palagashvili, Liya & Suarez Rocabado, Paola
2020
- 10955 Words Speak Louder Than Numbers: Estimating China’s COVID Severity with Deep Learning
by Zhong, Weifeng & Chan, Julian & Ho, Kwan-Yuet & Lee, Kit
- 10839 COVID-19 and the Fed’s Monetary Policy
by Hetzel, Robert
- 10762 Drone Technology, Airspace Design, and Aerial Law in States and Cities
by Skorup, Brent
- 10745 What Is Known from a Network? Digital Contact Tracing, Privacy, and Pandemics in the Digital Age
by Nabben, Kelsie & Barca, Jan-Carlo
- 10718 Abandon the Concept of Accredited Investors in Private Securities Offerings
by Vollmer , Andrew
- 10717 Larger Polities Are More Regulated
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Broughel, James & Bailey, James
- 10702 The Fiscal Cost of COVID-19: Evidence from the States
by Makridis, Christos & McNab, Robert
- 10698 A Critique of Interest Rate–Oriented Monetary Economics
by Sumner, Scott
- 10689 COVID-19 and the Fed’s Credit Policy
by Hetzel, Robert
- 10671 Industry-Level Baseline Risk of COVID-19 Infection
by Lowery, Richard & Canann, Taylor & Carvalho, Carlos
- 10656 Federal Pandemic Relief Could End the Interstate Economic Development Arms Race
by Farren, Michael & Mozena, John
- 10646 Evidence on the Use of Disclosure Documents in Private Securities Offerings to Accredited Investors
by Vollmer , Andrew
- 10632 The Benefits of Coronavirus Suppression: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Response to the First Wave of COVID-19
by Broughel, James & Kotrous, Michael
- 10608 Assessing Healthcare Capacity in India
by Rajagopalan, Shruti & Choutagunta, Abishek
- 10566 Healthcare Openness and Access Project 2020: Prerelease
by Rhoads, Jared & Bryan, Darcy & Graboyes, Robert
- 10561 Examining Certificate-of-Need Laws in the Context of the Rural Health Crisis
by Stratmann, Thomas
- 10464 Predicting Authoritarian Crackdowns: A Machine Learning Approach
by Zhong, Weifeng & Chan, Julian
- 10409 The Impact of Economic Regulation on Growth: Survey and Synthesis
by Broughel, James & Hahn, Robert
- 10374 The Politics of Redevelopment Planning in Tysons and Outcomes 10 Years Later
by Hamilton, Emily
- 10347 Regulation and Income Inequality in the United States
by O'Reilly, Colin & Chambers, Dustin
- 10340 The Sandbox Paradox: Balancing the Need to Facilitate Innovation with the Risk of Regulatory Privilege
by Knight, Brian & Mitchell, Trace
- 10329 How to Increase Transparency and Promote Value in Healthcare: Information plus Incentives
by O'Shea, John
- 10319 Explaining Dirks
by Vollmer , Andrew
- 10308 The Impact of Regulatory Growth on Operating Costs
by Fullenbaum, Richard & Richards, Tyler
- 10295 Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism
by Chambers, Dustin & Sherouse, Oliver & McLaughlin, Patrick
- 10274 Healthcare to the Home: Enabling Distributed Health Service Delivery by Removing Barriers to Entrepreneurial Exploration
by Auerswald, Philip
- 10243 On Regulation and Excess Reserves: The Case of Basel III
by Miller, Steph & Hoarty, Blake
- 10026 Rise of the "Quants" in Financial Services: Regulation and Crowding Out of Routine Jobs
by Makridis, Christos & Rossi, Alberto
- 10001 Outlawing Favoritism: The Economics, History, and Law of Anti-Aid Provisions in State Constitutions
by Mitchell, Matt & Riches, Jon & Thorson, Veronica & Philpot, Anne
- 09999 Restoring the Promise of Federal Reserve Governance
by Conti-Brown, Peter
- 09585 Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Febrizio, Mark & Sherouse, Oliver & King, Scott
- 07761 Currency Manipulation, Saving Manipulation, and the Current Account Balance
by Sumner, Scott
2019
- 10167 The Mighty Waves of Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Budgets and the Future of Cost-Benefit Analysis
by Broughel, James
- 10133 Private Policies and Public Power: When Banks Act as Regulators within a Regime of Privilege
by Knight, Brian & Mitchell, Trace
- 10118 The Erosion of Publisher Liability in American Law, Section 230, and the Future of Online Curation
by Skorup, Brent & Huddleston, Jennifer
- 10062 RegData: Australia
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Potts, Jason
- 10055 Rules vs. Discretion Revisited: A Proposal to Make the Strategy of Monetary Policy Transparent
by Hetzel, Robert
- 09997 New Evidence on Debt as an Obstacle to US Economic Growth
by Grennes , Thomas & Caner, Mehmet & Fan, Michael
- 09893 Inclusionary Zoning and Housing Market Outcomes
by Hamilton, Emily
- 09889 Executive Incentives, Import Restrictions, and Competition: Empirical Analysis of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders
by Blank, D. Brian
- 09752 Consumer Perceptions of Financial Advisory Titles and Implications for Title Regulation
by Tharp, Derek
- 09727 Commodity Money, Free Banking, and Nominal Income Targeting: Lessons for Monetary Policy Reform
by Hendrickson, Joshua
- 09588 Housing Supply in the 2010s
by Furth, Salim
- 09554 Applying XBRL to US State and Local Government Audited Financial Reports
by Joffe, Marc & Reck, Jacqueline
- 09496 Smart Cities, Dumb Infrastructure: Policy-Induced Competition in Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Systems
by Ray, Korok & Skorup, Brent
- 07815 Performance Standards vs. Design Standards: Facilitating a Shift toward Best Practices
by Montgomery, Laura & McLaughlin, Patrick
- 06934 Money Demand and Seignorage Maximization before the End of the Zimbabwean Dollar
by Miller, Steph & Ndhlela, Thandinkosi
- 06923 Regulatory Review Time and Pharmaceutical R&D
by Chorniy, Anna & Bailey, James & Maloney, Michael & Civan, Abdulkadir
2018
- 09863 Auctioning Airspace
by Skorup, Brent
- 09540 Hemp in the United States: A Case Study of Regulatory Path Dependency
by Malone, Trey & Gomez, Kevin
- 09527 The California Rule and Its Potential Abolition
by Shepard, Scott
- 09526 Does Land Development Pay for Itself? A Critique of Cost-of-Community-Service Studies
by Means, Tom & Estill, Jack
- 09458 Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size
by Chambers, Dustin & McLaughlin, Patrick
- 08926 Monetary Regimes, Money Supply, and the US Business Cycle since 1959: Implications for Monetary Policy Today
by Hollander, Hylton & Christensen , Lars
- 08736 The New Jersey Pension Crisis: Flailing in Deep Waters
by Shepard, Scott
- 08733 Role of the Private Sector in the Management of Highways: A Primer on Public-Private Partnerships
by Miller, Tracy
- 08724 Statutory Rulemaking Considerations and Judicial Review of Regulatory Impact Analysis
by Bull, Reeve & Ellig, Jerry
- 08673 Cutting Red Tape in the Garden State: New Jersey’s Regulatory Reform Program under Governor Chris Christie
by Broughel, James
- 08565 The Costs of a National Single-Payer Healthcare System
by Blahous, Charles
- 07839 Why and How Independent Agencies Should Conduct Regulatory Impact Analysis
by Ellig, Jerry
- 07810 Restoring Vision to Consumers and Competition to the Marketplace: Analyzing the Effects of Required Prescription Release
by Timmons, Edward & Norris, Conor
- 07776 Using Fiscal Ratios to Predict Local Fiscal Distress
by Gorina, Evgenia & Joffe, Marc & Maher, Craig
- 07742 The Informational Efficiency of Cross-Listed Securities and the Quality of Institutions
by Blau, Benjamin & Whitby, Ryan
- 07740 Rethinking Decimalization: The Impact of Increased Tick Sizes on Trading Activity and Volatility
by Blau, Benjamin & Whitby, Ryan
- 07672 Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty across the States
by Chambers, Dustin & McLaughlin, Patrick & Stanley, Laura
- 07662 The US Health Provider Workforce: Determinants and Potential Paths to Enhancement
by Flier, Jeffrey & Rhoads, Jared
- 07632 Soft Law for Hard Problems: The Governance of Emerging Technologies in an Uncertain Future
by Thierer, Adam & Koopman, Chris & Hagemann, Ryan
- 07625 Saving Social Security Disability Insurance: Designing and Testing Reforms through Demonstration Projects
by Fichtner, Jason & Seligman, Jason
- 07584 The Ethics of Insider Trading Reform
by Anderson, John
- 07542 US Regulators May Not Prevent Private Space Activity on the Basis of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty
by Montgomery, Laura
- 07536 Targeted Economic Incentives: An Analysis of State Fiscal Policy and Regulatory Conditions
by Calcagno, Peter & Hefner, Frank
- 07520 The Rise and Fall of Argentina
by Spruk, Rok
- 07392 Declining Teen Employment: Minimum Wages, Other Explanations, and Implications for Human Capital Investment
by Neumark, David
- 07020 The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses
by Mulligan, Casey
- 07001 Land Assembly without Eminent Domain: Laboratory Experiments of Two Tax Mechanisms
by Winn, Abel & McCarter, Matthew & DeSantis, Mark
- 06978 Ideology, Electoral Incentives, PAC Contributions, and the Agricultural Act of 2014
by Russell, Levi
- 06958 Constraining Rivals: The Effect of State-Mandated Facility Requirements on the Locations and Sizes of Funeral Homes
by Harrington, David
- 06918 The Fisher Effect and the Financial Crisis of 2008
by Glasner, David
- 04022 Income Inequality in the United States
by Mulholland, Sean
2017
- 07847 Benefits and Costs of a Higher Bank Leverage Ratio
by Miller, Steph & Barth, James
- 07800 Is There a Tradeoff between Economic Development Incentives and Economic Freedom? Evidence from the US States
by Dove, John & Sutter, Daniel
- 07793 Do Business Subsidies Lead to Increased Economic Activity? Evidence from Arkansas’s Quick Action Closing Fund
by Bundrick, Jacob & Snyder, Thomas
- 07791 Economic Development Incentives, Reported Job Creation, and Local Employment
by Byrne, Paul
- 07778 Is Economic Freedom Associated with Urban Development? Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas
by Millsap, Adam
- 07738 Declining Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation: Why Demand- and Health-Based Explanations Are Inadequate
by Winship, Scott
- 07723 Rule-Based Financing versus Political Competition in the Municipal Bond Market
by Moszoro, Marian
- 07711 The Medicaid FMAP under the ACA: Disparate Treatment of Eligible Populations Warrants Scrutiny
by Badger, Doug
- 07658 Barriers to Entry in the Healthcare Markets: Winners and Losers from Certificate-of-Need Laws
by Stratmann, Thomas & Baker, Matthew
- 07657 The President's Constitutional Power to Order Cost-Benefit Analysis and Centralized Review of Independent Agency Rulemaking
by Gray, C.
- 07655 A Lost Generation but Renewed Hope: Oregon's Pension Crisis and the Road to Reform
by Shepard, Scott
- 07647 Defining Common Carriers: Flight Sharing, the FAA, and the Future of Aviation
by Koopman, Chris
- 07629 The Impact of Regulations and Institutional Quality on Entrepreneurship
by Chambers, Dustin & Munemo, Jonathan
- 07626 Retire on the House: The Possible Use of Reverse Mortgages to Enhance Retirement Security
by Warshawsky, Mark
- 07620 A Primer on the Evolution and Complexity of Bank Regulatory Capital Standards
by Barth, James & Miller, Steph
- 07608 Regulation Costs and Private-Sector Know-How Spillovers of Public-Private Partnerships
by Moszoro, Marian
- 07602 The Trouble with Keynesian Stimulus Spending
by Caporale, Tony & Poitras, Marc
- 07538 Beyond Physicians: The Effect of Licensing and Liability Laws on the Supply of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
by McMichael, Benjamin
- 07513 Using Government Programs to Encourage Employment, Increase Earnings, and Grow the Economy
by Haskins, Ronald
- 07500 Central Bank Control over Interest Rates: The Myth and the Reality
by Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers
- 07476 A Chip Off the Old Block or a New Direction for Payment Card Security? Chips, PINs, and the Law and Economics of Payment Card Fraud
by Cooper, James & Zywicki, Todd
- 07446 Adverse Consequences of the Binding Constitutional Interest Rate Cap in the State of Arkansas
by Lukongo, Onyumbe Enumbe & Miller, Thomas
- 07422 Untangling Hair Braider Deregulation in Virginia: A Case Study Approach
by Timmons, Edward & Konieczny, Catherine
- 07414 A Critical Review of the Urban Institute Model of Financing Long-Term Services and Supports
by Warshawsky, Mark
- 07390 Online Outsourcing and the Future of Work
by Ray, Korok
- 07334 Local Governments and Economic Freedom: A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis
by Millsap, Adam & Hobbs, Brad & Stansel, Dean
- 07324 Federalism and Federalization on the Fintech Frontier
by Knight, Brian
- 07009 Improving the System of Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Americans
by Warshawsky, Mark & Marchand, Ross
- 06956 The Social Discount Rate: A Baseline Approach
by Broughel, James
- 06954 Governing the Financial System: A Theory of Financial Resilience
by Salter, Alexander & Tarko, Vlad
- 06940 Alternative Approaches to Broadband Policy: Lessons on Deregulation from Denmark
by Layton, Roslyn
- 06910 Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Incentives Work? The Answer Depends on How You Ask the Question
by Hanson, Andrew & Rohlin, Shawn
- 06899 The US Federal Crop Insurance Program: A Case Study in Rent-Seeking
by Smith, Vincent
- 06898 Interest-Rates-Free Monetary Policy Rule
by Raffinot, Thomas
- 06886 Should Government Subsidize Electronic Health Records?
by Marlow, Michael
- 06868 Government Dietary Guidelines: Uncertain Science Leads to Questionable Public Health Policy
by Archer, Edward & Marlow, Michael & Williams, Richard
- 06864 Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk
by Broughel, James & Viscusi, Kip
- 05196 The Effect of Interest Group Pressure on Favorable Regulatory Decisions: The Case of Certificate-of-Need Laws
by Stratmann, Thomas & Monaghan, Steven
- 04152 Permanent versus temporary monetary base Injections: Implications for past and future Fed Policy
by Beckworth, David
- 03539 Judicial Review of Regulatory Impact Analysis: Why Not the Best?
by Ellig, Jerry & Bull, Reeve
- 03323 A New Route to Increasing Economic Growth: Reducing Highway Congestion with Autonomous Vehicles
by Winston, Clifford & Karpilow, Quentin
- 03097 The Recourse Rule, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Financial Crisis
by Miller, Stephen
- 00257 Permissionless Innovation and Immersive Technology: Public Policy for Virtual and Augmented Reality
by Thierer, Adam & Camp, Jonathan
2016
- 07328 Affordable Care Act Turmoil: Large Losses in the Individual Market Portend an Uncertain Future
by Blase, Brian & Badger, Doug & Haislmaier, Edmund & Chandler, Seth
- 07321 Baggage of Consumer Installment Cash Lending: A New Sorting of the Suitcases
by Durkin, Thomas
- 07306 Small-Business Financing after the Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Literature
by Miller, Steph & HOFFER, ADAM & Wille, David
- 07021 Do Certificate-of-Need Laws Limit Spending?
by Mitchell, Matt
- 07002 Improvements in SEC Economic Analysis since Business Roundtable: A Structured Assessment
by Ellig, Jerry
- 06992 The Affordable Care Act in 2014: Significant Insurer Losses despite Substantial Subsidies
by Blase, Brian & Badger, Doug & Haislmaier, Edmund & Chandler, Seth
- 06932 How FCC Transaction Reviews Threaten Rule of Law and the First Amendment
by Skorup, Brent & Koopman, Chris
- 06927 Certificate-of-Need Laws and Hospital Quality
by Stratmann, Thomas & Wille, David
- 06926 Earnings Inequality: The Implications of the Rapidly Rising Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance
by Warshawsky, Mark
- 06921 The FCC and Quasi-Common Carriage: A Case Study of Agency Survival
by Skorup, Brent & Kane, Joe
- 06917 Measuring and Modeling Determinants of Fiscal Stress in US Municipalities
by Gorina, Evgenia & Maher, Craig
- 06897 What Theory and the Empirical Evidence Tell Us about Proxy Access
by Sharfman, Bernard
- 06893 Entry Regulation and Rural Health Care: Certificate-of-Need Laws, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and Community Hospitals
by Stratmann, Thomas & Koopman, Chris
- 06892 Are Certificate-of-Need Laws Barriers to Entry? How They Affect Access to MRI, CT, and PET Scans
by Stratmann, Thomas & Baker, Matthew
- 06885 The Benefits and Risks of Policymakers’ Use of Smart City Technology
by Hamilton, Emily
- 06883 Health Options Foreclosed: How the FDA Denies Americans the Benefits of Medical Research
by Williams, Richard & Joffe, Marc & Slonim, Ariel
- 06879 Effects of the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act on FDA Review Times for Medical Devices
by Sun, Eric & Ferguson, Kelly
- 06878 Evaluating the Quality and Use of Regulatory Impact Analysis: The Mercatus Center’s Regulatory Report Card, 2008–2013
by Ellig, Jerry
- 06877 On the Benefits and Costs of Public Access to Data Used to Support Federal Policy Making
by Lutter, Randall & Zorn, David
- 06871 How Do Federal Regulations Affect Consumer Prices? An Analysis of the Regressive Effects of Regulation
by Chambers, Dustin & Collins, Courtney
- 06870 The Energy Paradox and the Adoption of Energy-Saving Technologies in the Trucking Industry
by Fraas, Arthur & Lutter, Randall & Porter, Zachary & Wallace, Alexander
- 06869 An Economic Analysis of Overtime Pay Regulations
by Boudreaux, Don & Palagashvili, Liya
- 06865 Preventing a Regulatory Train Wreck: Mandated Regulation and the Cautionary Tale of Positive Train Control
by Ellig, Jerry & Horney, Michael
- 06863 The Cumulative Cost of Regulations
by Coffey, Bentley & McLaughlin, Patrick
- 06860 The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion: Federalism, Interest Groups, and the ACA
by Sutter, Daniel
- 06858 Healthcare License Turf Wars: The Effects of Expanded Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Scope of Practice on Medicaid Patient Access
by Timmons, Edward
- 06856 Vertical Fiscal Gaps and Economic Performance: A Theoretical Review and an Empirical Meta-analysis
by Sorens, Jason
- 06846 Getting More Out of State Transportation Infrastructure Spending
by Miller, Tracy & Hansen, Megan
- 06813 The Myth of Central Bank Independence
by Cargill, Thomas
- 05192 Can Health Spending Be Reined In through Supply Constraints? An Evaluation of Certificate-of-Need Laws
by Bailey, James
- 05185 CLIA Waiver Pharmacy Growth: How Does Broadening Scope of Practice Affect the Pharmacist Labor Market?
by Timmons, Edward & Norris, Conor
- 05171 The Right to Try and the Future of the FDA in the Age of Personalized Medicine
by Thierer, Adam
- 05145 Regulation and Income Inequality: The Regressive Effects of Entry Regulations
by McLaughlin, Patrick & Stanley, Laura
- 04946 Taking Paternalism Out of Nudge: The Case of Medication Nonadherence among Patients with Chronic Conditions
by Abdukadirov, Sherzod & King, Scott & Wille, David
- 04225 FDA-CMS Parallel Review: A Failed Attempt at Spurring Innovation
by Podemska-Mikluch, Marta
- 04174 Regulation under Uncertainty: Use of the Linear No-Threshold Model in Chemical and Radiation Exposure
by Shamoun, Dima & Williams, Richard & Broughel, James & Calabrese, Edward