At this AEI event, panelists will discuss the practical potential and wisdom of further changes to patent law designed to promote innovation and entrepreneurial vigor in the United States.

India’s education policies should encourage private initiative and focus on learning outcomes

Mutual funds compete for investor interest with many other forms of investment. Some of these competing forms are regulated under the Investment Company Act of 1940, but others are not. Panelists at this AEI conference will discuss three competing forms of investment—exchange-traded funds (ETFs), separately managed accounts, and the customized...

This is the second in a series of conferences to explore the regulation of mutual funds. Mutual funds are only one form of collective investment vehicle regulated at the federal level. Other categories include bank common trust funds and collective investment funds, both of which are exempt from the...

While everyone says they want more innovation, words are easy. The tough, practical questions remain: How do we get more innovation and how do we harness it?

The Huntsman plan for regulatory reform is a good effort, but it fails to come close to accomplishing the one major goal that it highlights in its summary description — “ending” too-big-to-fail (TBTF).

In July 2011, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appointed Maj. Gen. Rostam Qassemi of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as oil minister,[1] bringing the number of former IRGC officers in his cabinet to twelve out of eighteen. Yet the IRGC's seizure of the Oil Ministry could have far reaching economic,...

The Investment Company Act of 1940—under which the Securities and Exchange Commission regulates mutual funds and other investment companies—was enacted when the industry was a fraction of its current size, when mutual funds were a rarity, and when most investment companies were managed by corporate boards instead of outside investment...