The United States needs to consolidate the over 115 existing state and federal agencies that regulate banking, securities and insurance firms and their products and services into a single financial services regulator, a U.S. Financial Services Agency (US FSA). The US FSA would be able to...

This paper investigates whether a nation's contingent value of hosting a mega-event depends on past experience with implied public goods benefits for its residents. Applying data from an ex-ante and ex-post query based on contingent valuation methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural...

How did Congress pass President Bush's 2001 trillion-dollar tax cut pass without the necessary consensus shape and without the 60 Senate votes required to overcome resistance? How was the House able to give quot;fast trackquot; treatment to laws designed to implement future trade deals? How was...

SWFs manage large financial assets of sovereign states across borders. The structure and objectives of these funds are poorly understood. Drawing conclusions about the intentions of these funds only based on their level of transparency, however, can be misleading. Transparency or lack thereof is...

This study explores the potential to use FIFA and men's World Cup football to advance LGBT rights. Transnational sporting organizations such as the IOC and FIFA operate largely behind closed doors. In secret agreements, the organizations leverage world audience to bend national governments to...

We analyze various normatively determined distributions of language rights in multilingual settings. A general model for the analysis of language rights over time in a model with overlapping generations is set up. This model is then first used to find efficient allocations of rights in the...

How does policy affect innovation and the digital economy? We revisit how standard product market regulation affects innovation and develop a novel framework for thinking about digital regulation. Using new establishment-level micro-data across 12 countries between 1998 and 2012, this paper...

In Romania, the fall of the communist regime made possible the private education. However, its development was asymmetric. The Private Universities increased in number beginning with the 1990s and the private schools had a delayed start. The new trend of the education reform in Romania could...

In this article, the author reviews the process by which the National Institute of Justice, the largest funder of criminological and criminal justice research in the United States, operates in the adjudication, dissemination, and monitoring of research grants. I also analyze the functions of...

This paper discusses the institutional arrangement of a new policy created in 2012 by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MSTI) to foster entrepreneurship and innovation: the “Start-Up Brasil” (SUB) program. The policy tries to bring together private firms focused on business...