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6987: Sweeten the Deal: Transfer of Federal Spectrum Through Overlay Licenses

Brent Skorup

6978: Ideology, Electoral Incentives, PAC Contributions, and the Agricultural Act of 2014

Levi Russell

6958: Constraining Rivals: The Effect of State-Mandated Facility Requirements on the Locations and Sizes of Funeral Homes

David Harrington

6956: The Social Discount Rate: A Baseline Approach

James Broughel

6954: Governing the Financial System: A Theory of Financial Resilience

Alexander Salter and Vlad Tarko

6940: Alternative Approaches to Broadband Policy: Lessons on Deregulation from Denmark

Roslyn Layton

6934: Money Demand and Seignorage Maximization before the End of the Zimbabwean Dollar

Steph Miller and Thandinkosi Ndhlela

6932: How FCC Transaction Reviews Threaten Rule of Law and the First Amendment

Brent Skorup and Chris Koopman

6927: Certificate-of-Need Laws and Hospital Quality

Thomas Stratmann and David Wille

6926: Earnings Inequality: The Implications of the Rapidly Rising Cost of Employer-Provided Health Insurance

Mark Warshawsky

6923: Regulatory Review Time and Pharmaceutical R&D

Anna Chorniy, James Bailey, Michael Maloney and Abdulkadir Civan

6921: The FCC and Quasi-Common Carriage: A Case Study of Agency Survival

Brent Skorup and Joe Kane

6918: The Fisher Effect and the Financial Crisis of 2008

David Glasner

6917: Measuring and Modeling Determinants of Fiscal Stress in US Municipalities

Evgenia Gorina and Craig Maher

6910: Do Spatially Targeted Redevelopment Incentives Work? The Answer Depends on How You Ask the Question

Andrew Hanson and Shawn Rohlin

6901: Protectionism Among the States: How Preference Policies Undermine Competition

Adam Hoffer and Russell Sobel

6899: The US Federal Crop Insurance Program: A Case Study in Rent-Seeking

Vincent Smith

6898: Interest-Rates-Free Monetary Policy Rule

Thomas Raffinot

6897: What Theory and the Empirical Evidence Tell Us about Proxy Access

Bernard Sharfman

6893: Entry Regulation and Rural Health Care: Certificate-of-Need Laws, Ambulatory Surgical Centers, and Community Hospitals

Thomas Stratmann and Chris Koopman

6892: Are Certificate-of-Need Laws Barriers to Entry? How They Affect Access to MRI, CT, and PET Scans

Thomas Stratmann and Matthew Baker

6886: Should Government Subsidize Electronic Health Records?

Michael Marlow

6885: The Benefits and Risks of Policymakers’ Use of Smart City Technology

Emily Hamilton

6883: Health Options Foreclosed: How the FDA Denies Americans the Benefits of Medical Research

Richard Williams, Marc Joffe and Ariel Slonim

6879: Effects of the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act on FDA Review Times for Medical Devices

Eric Sun and Kelly Ferguson

6878: Evaluating the Quality and Use of Regulatory Impact Analysis: The Mercatus Center’s Regulatory Report Card, 2008–2013

Jerry Ellig

6877: On the Benefits and Costs of Public Access to Data Used to Support Federal Policy Making

Randall Lutter and David Zorn

6871: How Do Federal Regulations Affect Consumer Prices? An Analysis of the Regressive Effects of Regulation

Dustin Chambers and Courtney Collins

6870: The Energy Paradox and the Adoption of Energy-Saving Technologies in the Trucking Industry

Arthur Fraas, Randall Lutter, Zachary Porter and Alexander Wallace

6869: An Economic Analysis of Overtime Pay Regulations

Don Boudreaux and Liya Palagashvili

6868: Government Dietary Guidelines: Uncertain Science Leads to Questionable Public Health Policy

Edward Archer, Michael Marlow and Richard Williams

6865: Preventing a Regulatory Train Wreck: Mandated Regulation and the Cautionary Tale of Positive Train Control

Jerry Ellig and Michael Horney

6864: Death by Regulation: How Regulations Can Increase Mortality Risk

James Broughel and W Viscusi

6863: The Cumulative Cost of Regulations

Bentley Coffey and Patrick McLaughlin

6860: The Political Economy of Medicaid Expansion: Federalism, Interest Groups, and the ACA

Daniel Sutter

6858: Healthcare License Turf Wars: The Effects of Expanded Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Scope of Practice on Medicaid Patient Access

Edward Timmons

6857: The Effectiveness of Setting Governmental Accounting Standards: The Case of Michigan Governments in Fiscal Distress

Sue Convery

6856: Vertical Fiscal Gaps and Economic Performance: A Theoretical Review and an Empirical Meta-analysis

Jason Sorens

6846: Getting More Out of State Transportation Infrastructure Spending

Tracy Miller and Megan Hansen

6838: The Evolution of Federal Budget Rules and the Effects on Fiscal Policy: How Informal Norms Have Trumped Formal Constraints

Peter Calcagno and Edward Lopez

6834: Reforming Retirement Income: Annuitization, Combination Strategies, and Required Minimum Distributions

Mark Warshawsky

6828: Medicare's Role in Determining Prices Throughout the Health Care System

Roger Feldman, Bryan Dowd and Robert Coulam

6819: Space Debris: A Law and Economics Analysis of the Orbital Commons

Alexander Salter

6815: Active Defense: An Overview of the Debate and a Way Forward

Anthony Glosson

6813: The Myth of Central Bank Independence

Thomas Cargill

6811: The Law and Economics of Consumer Debt Collection and Its Regulation

Todd Zywicki

6734: Reforming the System of Review by Administrative Law Judges in Disability Insurance

Mark Warshawsky and Ross Marchand

5196: The Effect of Interest Group Pressure on Favorable Regulatory Decisions: The Case of Certificate-of-Need Laws

Thomas Stratmann and Steven Monaghan

5192: Can Health Spending Be Reined In through Supply Constraints? An Evaluation of Certificate-of-Need Laws

James Bailey

5185: CLIA Waiver Pharmacy Growth: How Does Broadening Scope of Practice Affect the Pharmacist Labor Market?

Edward Timmons and Conor Norris

5171: The Right to Try and the Future of the FDA in the Age of Personalized Medicine

Adam Thierer

5145: Regulation and Income Inequality: The Regressive Effects of Entry Regulations

Patrick McLaughlin and Laura Stanley

5144: Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane? Some Research Questions in Social Change and Big Government

Tyler Cowen

4946: Taking Paternalism Out of Nudge: The Case of Medication Nonadherence among Patients with Chronic Conditions

Sherzod Abdukadirov, Scott King and David Wille

4225: FDA-CMS Parallel Review: A Failed Attempt at Spurring Innovation

Marta Podemska-Mikluch

4174: Regulation under Uncertainty: Use of the Linear No-Threshold Model in Chemical and Radiation Exposure

Dima Shamoun, Richard Williams, James Broughel and Edward Calabrese

4152: Permanent versus temporary monetary base Injections: Implications for past and future Fed Policy

David Beckworth

4022: Income Inequality in the United States

Sean Mulholland

3539: Judicial Review of Regulatory Impact Analysis: Why Not the Best?

Jerry Ellig and Reeve Bull

3323: A New Route to Increasing Economic Growth: Reducing Highway Congestion with Autonomous Vehicles

Clifford Winston and Quentin Karpilow

3319: The Monetary Policy Origins of the Eurozone Crisis

David Beckworth

3314: Integrating Drones into the US Air Traffic Control System

Randall Holcombe

3221: Derivatives Clearinghouses: Clearing the Way to Failure

Hester Peirce

3097: The Recourse Rule, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Financial Crisis

Stephen Miller

257: Permissionless Innovation and Immersive Technology: Public Policy for Virtual and Augmented Reality

Adam Thierer and Jonathan Camp

256: Guns, Limbs, and Toys: What Future for 3D Printing?

Adam Thierer

242: Nominal GDP Targeting and the Taylor Rule on an Even Playing Field

David Beckworth and Joshua Hendrickson

228: Work Incentives in the Social Security Disability Benefit Formula

Gopi Goda, John Shoven and Sita Slavov

169: The Regulatory Determinants of Railroad Safety

Jerry Ellig and Patrick McLaughlin