Agency Seeks to Enhance Reliability of Emergency Phone Calls
FCC proposal aims to enhance cellular communication during emergencies.
Penn Seminar Explores New Responses to Flood Risks
Experts ask if super-storms require new approaches to risk regulation, insurance, and disaster management.
Smart Regulation for the Smart Grid
Smart Grid Interoperability Panel provides model for collaborative standards development.
The Shift to Prosecuting Companies Instead of Individuals
Federal prosecutors have made a subtle but important shift over the last 30 years to prosecuting companies and institutions.
Potential Reasons for the Dearth of Prosecutions
Alternative priorities and government ties to the conditions that caused the financial crisis could explain the lack of prosecutions.
The Department of Justice and the Prosecution of Fraud
The DOJ has excused the failure to prosecute high-level individuals for fraud on one or more of three grounds.
Who is to Blame for the Great Recession?
If the Great Recession was caused by fraud, the failure to prosecute those responsible is an egregious failure.
Why Have No High-level Executives Been Prosecuted?
The Regulatory Review features the remarks of Judge Jed S. Rakoff, delivered at the Institute for Law and Economics’s Distinguished Jurist Lecture.
International Approach to Failing Financial Institutions Sought
U.S. and U.K. regulators stress progress on cross-border agreements.
The Growing Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to Financial Regulation
Cost-benefit analysis assumes an increasingly prominent role in financial rulemaking.
No Country for Large Profits: G20 Endorses Plan to Update Tax Rules
OECD plan lays out new rules for addressing corporate tax avoidance.
A New Tax-and-Spend Strategy to Fight Obesity
Scholar proposes a manufacturers’ excise tax to fund obesity-prevention efforts.