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A Simpler Approach to Finance Reform
(Regulation, 2013)
There is a growing consensus that new financial reform legislation may be in order. The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, while well-intended, is now widely viewed to be at best insufficient, at worst a costly misfire. Members of ...
Information Asymmetries in Consumer Credit Markets
(American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013)
This paper tests for incentive and selection effects in a subprime consumer credit market. We estimate the incentive effect of loan size on default using sharp discontinuities in loan eligibility rules. This allows us to ...
Plain Packaging and the Interpretation of the Tripps Agreement
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2013)
Plain packaging of cigarettes as a way of reducing tobacco consumption and its related health costs and effects raises a number of international trade law issues. The plain packaging measures adopted in Australia impose ...
Federal Preemption and Immigrants' Rights
(Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy, 2013)
Recently, immigration scholars have focused on the relationship between federal, state, and local governments in regulating immigration to the exclusion of civil rights issues. States and localities assert that they should ...
Inferring Desire
(Duke Law Journal, 2013)
In the course of debates over same-sex marriage, many scholars have proposed new legal definitions of sexual orientation to better account for the role of relationships in constituting identities. But these discussions ...
Inferring Desire
(Duke Law Journal, 2013)
In the course of debates over same-sex marriage, many scholars have proposed new legal definitions of sexual orientation to better account for the role of relationships in constituting identities. But these discussions ...