For decades, Native Americans have experienced a shorter life expectancy and worse health outcomes than have other Americans. This paper examines some of the causes behind these outcomes and potential ways to improve them. A majority of Native Americans use the Indian Health Service (IHS), a...

The United States stood virtually alone when it enacted its first antitrust statute in 1890. Today, almost all nations have adopted competition laws (the term used in most other nations), and US antitrust agencies interact with foreign enforc-ers on a daily basis. This globalization of antitrust...

How do regulations shape young technology startups? This paper provides the descriptive findings from novel data collection of fieldwork interviews and surveys of technology startups in the United States and covers the topics of industry regulations, use of legal counsel, contractor labor,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to the regulatory framework that governs the US healthcare system, and in particular to regulations affecting healthcare workers. This paper focuses on one type of occupational regulation imposed in the pharmacy setting, known as ratio requirements. Many...

An oversupply of housing, as a result of a building boom after the turn of the century, is commonly cited as a key cause of the Great Recession and the slow recovery from that recession. Using both national data and data for individual metropolitan areas, such as housing permits, residential...

Growing concern about large digital platform companies, particularly Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, exercising monopoly power has given rise to antitrust investigations that examine whether they are guilty of exclusionary practices. After defending the consumer welfare standard as the...

The current system of healthcare licensure contributes to the high cost of and impaired access to medical care. Politics plays a perverse role in maintaining the status quo and prevents the healthcare workforce from adapting to the evolving needs and rapid technological advances of the 21st...

Worldwide, commercial drone services are being tested and permitted. Progress in the United States has been slow, in part because of a lack of clarity about the federal and state roles over drones and airspace management. To jumpstart the drone industry, states can create drone highways—...

This study examines the history and operation of the Federal Reserve System (“the Fed”). It explores the Fed's origins in American economic history and emphasizes the political compromises that produced it. It seeks to provide an accessible explanation of how the Fed attempts to change the...

Most research on the run-up in home prices before the Great Recession has focused on types of excessive demand—loose lending, foreign savings, loose monetary policy, speculation, bank deregulation, federal housing subsidies, etc. The focus on excess demand led to fatalism about the collapse in...