In a recent paper on the long coincident behavior of international capital flows, commodity prices, and interest rates in global financial centers, Reinhart, Reinhart, and Trebesch (2016 and 2017) discovered the curious case of missing defaults. Despite the drying up of global capital flows and...

If some members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission have their way, they will mandate free television for federal candidates.

The economists, who have consensus on the approach that the education has a strong effect on the acquisition capacity and economic growth, think people as human capital. This approach has increased investment in education. This increase in education has led discussion on the idea of equity. This...

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

Seemingly common-sense taxation approaches raise issues of equity, tax administration, and unintended economic consequences.

This study explains why financial services have for centuries been regulated to a greater extent than are most products that do not directly affect people's health or safety.

The authors consider whether any special circumstances justify departure from free trade in telecommunications equipment.

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

This bookconcerns the world of transnational investing and the drift in U.S. policy towards conditional national treatment and the use of foreign investors as a trade tool.