Publications

September 2009
Article

How to Fix Wall Street: Regulation Alone Can't Right the Financial System

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; System

May 2008
Article

Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski

In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States

SSRN

03 Dec 2015
News

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

2012
Chapter

Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy

By: Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe and Christopher Poliquin

Economic theory is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of regulating negative externalities, such as command and control, cap and trade, taxation, subsidies, and tort law. Yet public policy rarely follows the recommendations that follow from... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Decision Making; Government and Politics; United States

spring 1981
Article

From Competitor to Consumer: The Changing Focus of Federal Regulation of Advertising, 1914-1938

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Competition; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Advertising

1995
Chapter

Contending Views of Quality Management in Health Care: Implications for Competition and Regulation

By: D. Blumenthal and Richard Bohmer

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Health Industry

1980
Chapter

The International Product Life Cycle and United States Regulation of the Automobile Industry

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: History; Government and Politics; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Auto Industry; United States

July 2020
Article

Lessons from the Impact of Price Regulation on the Pricing of Anticancer Drugs in Germany

By: Victoria D. Lauenroth, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Ameet Sarpatwari and Ariel Dora Stern

Worldwide spending on prescription drugs has increased dramatically in recent years. Although this increase has been particularly pronounced in the U.S., it remains largely unaddressed there. In Europe, however, different approaches to regulating drug prices have been... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Prescription Drug Costs; Drug Pricing; Access To Care; Cost Reduction; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost Management; Germany

Research Summary

Targeting Corporate Interests: The US banking industry's experience with community groups and regulators

In this project with Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Dennis Yao we use evidence from comminity groups' protests of bank mergers and negotiations with banking institutions to study how and why these firms are targeted for their non-market behavior.

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1992
Chapter

The Role of Market Value Accounting in the Regulation of Insured Depository Institutions

By: S. Datar, W. Beaver and M. Wolfson

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions

Article

The Effect of Incentive Regulation on Local Exchange Companies' Deployment of Digital Infrastructure

By: Shane Greenstein, Susan McMaster and Pablo Spiller

31 Mar 2020
News

The Case for Cryptocurrencies as a New Category of Regulated Non-Sovereign Fiat Currency

01 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman & Damien Geradin; Web Services

21 Jun 2017
News

Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

March 2005
Teaching Note

Antitrust Regulations in a Global Setting: The EU Investigation of the GE/Honeywell Merger (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Belen Villalonga

Teaching Note to (9-204-081). View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Monopoly; Electronics Industry; European Union

Purchase

2018
Article

What Can Managers Privately Disclose to Investors?

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2000 created Regulation Fair Disclosure... View Details

Keywords: Disclosure Regulation; Information; Communication; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

2016
Working Paper

The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

By: Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy

Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60% of the total jobs lost. The economic crisis was one focused on the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses,... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Financing and Loans; Financial Crisis

SSRN

December 2000
Article

Risk versus Risk: Tragic Choices in Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health; United States; Germany