Showing posts with label Regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regulation. Show all posts
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Surprised? Regulators in bed with Regulated!

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The DOJ’s inspector general’s office, run by Glenn Fine, has had one heckuva busy summer, throwing much of its resources at investigations i...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Ownership Congestion? Tragedy of Anticommons?

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A former World Banker ; Well, I’ve been finding ownership puzzles in a host of disparate places, like waiting around in airports and wonderi...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Georgia the Model?

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World Bank's Doing Business blog seems to have more posts on Georgia than any other country. For example; Top Reformer Wins Election in...
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Silly regulation?

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Bmi, Britain's third largest airline, will fly near-empty "ghost flights" in order to keep valuable take-off and landing slots...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

NY Fact of the Day

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“The city should not be in the business of deciding what goes on, whether there is dancing or not dancing,” Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

Dutch Fact of the Day

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In January 2007, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture issued a report in which it took 29 pages to explain "quality standards for onions,...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Fire on Ice

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Iceland’s current woes teach a useful lesson about the interconnectedness of global markets: trouble can come from anywhere. Homeowners defa...
Monday, April 7, 2008

Oral Justice

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Oral Justice
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Econ Talks- Hayek for Africa

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Hayekian Insights on Economic Development Featuring William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, with comments by Arvind S...

Three models of financial regulation

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Sharks circle Paulson's Aussie plan ; To simplify heroically, there are three main models of financial regulation in operation around th...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Doing Business in Small Islands

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Interesting post from World Bank's Doing Business blog ; In Mauritius, it takes only 7 days. Mauritius, the best performing SIDS econom...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Italy Reforms

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It's Old Insolvency Regime
Friday, March 28, 2008

Quote of the Day

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If the government underwrites all the risks, call it socialism. If it underwrites only the failures, call it foolishness . - Allan Meltzer
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

A reminder- the Mercatus Center Master's Fellowship Program

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The deadline for applications for the Fall 2008 semester is April 18, 2008. The Mercatus Center Master's Fellowship Program is a compet...
Sunday, March 23, 2008

Another of Don's Letters

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One of Don Boudreaux's recent letters ; David Brooks notes that "behavioral economists demonstrate every day [that] human beings a...
Thursday, March 20, 2008

Paul Volcker the practical monetarist

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FT coverage of the Volcker interview; He told CBS Charlie Rose show: “We have seen the Federal Reserve take more extreme measures in some r...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Dept. of Crazy Laws

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Your Ph.D. Isn't from the EU? Then You're Not a 'Doktor' Britain Reverses Ban on Bloody Video Game Court Says OK for Gere to...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Blind economists

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Massimo Morelli James Gwartney Yet their productivity will put all of us to shame. Related; James Gwartney talk at Cato
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Doing in Business in Middle East

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Fadi Ghandour , founder of Aramex So where do you think he learned the art of entrepreneurship? You guessed it right- in USA. Related; Deliv...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia

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A recent publication from ADB- South Asia Economic Report-Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia