Regulation is necessary to overcome perverse incentives and ensure the quality of corporate governance ratings, which are important to institutional investors, managers, and their clients.

Hubbard and Duggan make the case that current foreign aid and Third World projects--particularly in Africa--aren't working and that the developed world must rethink how it allots aid money.

In an upcoming piece, AEI's Kevin Hassett highlights a new unique index of policy uncertainty which was developed in a path-breaking paper by Stanford economists Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom along with AEI Visiting Scholar and University of Chicago economist Steve Davis. Among...

How do we define competitiveness, and is it worth pursuing as a policy goal? In what ways do countries compete in various areas, including education, intellectual property, health care and taxes? This AEI conference will be the first of a two-part series in which scholars will present new research on competitiveness. Each paper will be presented by its author(s), followed by comments from an expert and questions from the audience.

Why is the U.S. economy in disarray and what can be done to fix it?

From humble beginnings twenty-five years ago on Wall Street, the leveraged buyout boom has developed into a veritable industry; today, 30 percent of all corporate merger and acquisition activity in the United States is driven by buyout firms, and the sector commands over $2 trillion in leveraged assets. Along with...

The belief that those with an eye toward entrepreneurial careers can't and don't benefit from an MBA education should be refuted.