The 1984 Justice Department settlement with AT&T marked one of the largest antitrust action in the nation's history. At the end of the process major changes were made in the original settlement proposal. Investors in affected industries behaved as if they were assessing these changes. Portfolio...

In this article, we assess the prospective effects of different legislative packages by examining how financial markets reacted to alternate proposals and the final law. The use of financial markets analysis provides at least one avenue for identifying interest groups that won and lost as the...

This authoritative and encyclopaedic reference work provides a thorough account of the public choice approach to economics and politics. The Companion breaks new ground by joining together the most important issues in the field in a single comprehensive volume. It contains state-of-the-art...

Bruce Yandle’s personal remembrance of Gordon Tullock, an intellectual giant whose passion for knowledge and understanding knew no boundaries, may be gone, but he will not be forgotten. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015