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7810: Restoring Vision to Consumers and Competition to the Marketplace: Analyzing the Effects of Required Prescription Release

Edward Timmons and Conor Norris

7800: Is There a Tradeoff between Economic Development Incentives and Economic Freedom? Evidence from the US States

John Dove and Daniel Sutter

7793: Do Business Subsidies Lead to Increased Economic Activity? Evidence from Arkansas’s Quick Action Closing Fund

Jacob Bundrick and Thomas Snyder

7791: Economic Development Incentives, Reported Job Creation, and Local Employment

Paul Byrne

7778: Is Economic Freedom Associated with Urban Development? Evidence from US Metropolitan Areas

Adam Millsap

7776: Using Fiscal Ratios to Predict Local Fiscal Distress

Evgenia Gorina, Marc Joffe and Craig Maher

7761: Currency Manipulation, Saving Manipulation, and the Current Account Balance

Scott Sumner

7742: The Informational Efficiency of Cross-Listed Securities and the Quality of Institutions

Benjamin Blau and Ryan Whitby

7740: Rethinking Decimalization: The Impact of Increased Tick Sizes on Trading Activity and Volatility

Benjamin Blau and Ryan Whitby

7738: Declining Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation: Why Demand- and Health-Based Explanations Are Inadequate

Scott Winship

7723: Rule-Based Financing versus Political Competition in the Municipal Bond Market

Marian Moszoro

7711: The Medicaid FMAP under the ACA: Disparate Treatment of Eligible Populations Warrants Scrutiny

Doug Badger

7672: Regulation and Poverty: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship between the Incidence of Federal Regulation and the Occurrence of Poverty across the States

Dustin Chambers, Patrick McLaughlin and Laura Stanley

7662: The US Health Provider Workforce: Determinants and Potential Paths to Enhancement

Jeffrey Flier and Jared Rhoads

7658: Barriers to Entry in the Healthcare Markets: Winners and Losers from Certificate-of-Need Laws

Thomas Stratmann and Matthew Baker

7657: The President's Constitutional Power to Order Cost-Benefit Analysis and Centralized Review of Independent Agency Rulemaking

C. Gray

7655: A Lost Generation but Renewed Hope: Oregon's Pension Crisis and the Road to Reform

Scott Shepard

7647: Defining Common Carriers: Flight Sharing, the FAA, and the Future of Aviation

Chris Koopman

7632: Soft Law for Hard Problems: The Governance of Emerging Technologies in an Uncertain Future

Adam Thierer, Chris Koopman and Ryan Hagemann

7629: The Impact of Regulations and Institutional Quality on Entrepreneurship

Dustin Chambers and Jonathan Munemo

7626: Retire on the House: The Possible Use of Reverse Mortgages to Enhance Retirement Security

Mark Warshawsky

7625: Saving Social Security Disability Insurance: Designing and Testing Reforms through Demonstration Projects

Jason Fichtner and Jason Seligman

7620: A Primer on the Evolution and Complexity of Bank Regulatory Capital Standards

James Barth and Steph Miller

7608: Regulation Costs and Private-Sector Know-How Spillovers of Public-Private Partnerships

Marian Moszoro

7602: The Trouble with Keynesian Stimulus Spending

Tony Caporale and Marc Poitras

7584: The Ethics of Insider Trading Reform

John Anderson

7542: US Regulators May Not Prevent Private Space Activity on the Basis of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty

Laura Montgomery

7538: Beyond Physicians: The Effect of Licensing and Liability Laws on the Supply of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants

Benjamin McMichael

7536: Targeted Economic Incentives: An Analysis of State Fiscal Policy and Regulatory Conditions

Peter Calcagno and Frank Hefner

7520: The Rise and Fall of Argentina

Rok Spruk

7513: Using Government Programs to Encourage Employment, Increase Earnings, and Grow the Economy

Ronald Haskins

7500: Central Bank Control over Interest Rates: The Myth and the Reality

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

7476: A Chip Off the Old Block or a New Direction for Payment Card Security? Chips, PINs, and the Law and Economics of Payment Card Fraud

James Cooper and Todd Zywicki

7446: Adverse Consequences of the Binding Constitutional Interest Rate Cap in the State of Arkansas

Onyumbe Enumbe Lukongo and Thomas Miller

7422: Untangling Hair Braider Deregulation in Virginia: A Case Study Approach

Edward Timmons and Catherine Konieczny

7414: A Critical Review of the Urban Institute Model of Financing Long-Term Services and Supports

Mark Warshawsky

7392: Declining Teen Employment: Minimum Wages, Other Explanations, and Implications for Human Capital Investment

David Neumark

7390: Online Outsourcing and the Future of Work

Korok Ray

7371: How the Internet, the Sharing Economy, and Reputational Feedback Mechanisms Solve the “Lemons Problemâ€

Adam Thierer, Chris Koopman, Anne Hobson and Chris Kuiper

7334: Local Governments and Economic Freedom: A Test of the Leviathan Hypothesis

Adam Millsap, Brad Hobbs and Dean Stansel

7328: Affordable Care Act Turmoil: Large Losses in the Individual Market Portend an Uncertain Future

Brian Blase, Doug Badger, Edmund Haislmaier and Seth Chandler

7324: Federalism and Federalization on the Fintech Frontier

Brian Knight

7321: Baggage of Consumer Installment Cash Lending: A New Sorting of the Suitcases

Thomas Durkin

7306: Small-Business Financing after the Financial Crisis: Lessons from the Literature

Steph Miller, Adam Hoffer and David Wille

7021: Do Certificate-of-Need Laws Limit Spending?

Matt Mitchell

7020: The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses

Casey Mulligan

7009: Improving the System of Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Older Americans

Mark Warshawsky and Ross Marchand

7002: Improvements in SEC Economic Analysis since Business Roundtable: A Structured Assessment

Jerry Ellig

7001: Land Assembly without Eminent Domain: Laboratory Experiments of Two Tax Mechanisms

Abel Winn, Matthew McCarter and Mark DeSantis

6992: The Affordable Care Act in 2014: Significant Insurer Losses despite Substantial Subsidies

Brian Blase, Doug Badger, Edmund Haislmaier and Seth Chandler