This booktraces the origins of GSEs, contrasts investor-owned and cooperative GSEs, and examines such issues as activities and the quality of oversight.

J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber examine the justifications for the publicly-protected postal monopoly and its public ownership and control.

High loan-to-value mortgage lending is a fast-growing sector of the mortgage industry that has evolved to meet the needs of today's consumers.

The authors argue that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is a colossal failure, yet seek to salvage some lessons from the ruins of SOX.

Can increasingly predominant shareholders improve the performance of the corporations they own and should they attempt to do so?

This book examines America's economy over the past several decades and the sources of our recent success and comes to surprising conclusions about what we can learn from it.

The bookpresents different perspectives that explain the prohibition of insider trading and the way it affects various aspects of life on the stock market.

What are the roles of the public and private sectors in fostering economic growth? Technological advance? Sectoral and regional development?

The current approach toward U.S. securities regulation by the Securities and Exchange Commission should be revamped by implementing a regime of competitive federalism.

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.