The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee works to identify and analyze developing trends and ongoing events that promise to affect the efficiency and safe operation of sectors of the financial services industry; explore the spectrum of short- and long-term implications of emerging problems and policy changes; help develop private, regulatory and legislative responses to such problems that promote efficiency and safety and further the public interest; and to assess and respond to proposed and actual public policy initiatives with respect to the impact on the public interest.

At this conference, we will assess whether high frequency trading (HFT) has been good or bad for the securities markets and investors.

Scholars and analysts can help policymakers advance U.S. interests in Asia by assessing the dynamic Sino-U.S. balance of power in the region.

Assessing President Obama's trip to Asia.

In a just published piece, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) tax experts Alex Brill and Alan Viard assess President Obama's plan to triple dividend tax rate.

During President Obama’s recent trip to Asia, he announced the outlines for a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with nine Asian nations. AEI has assembled a group of trade policy experts to explore the immediate and long-term future of the TPP negotiations and assess their regional negotiations in the context of broader U.S. trade policy goals.

Iran is at the threshold of a nuclear weapons capability. Sanctions, direct action, and diplomatic tools have neither changed Iran’s nuclear policy nor had a visible effect on the enrichment program, including the growing stockpile of 19.75% LEU.

Hires, quits, and layoffs exhibit strong, highly nonlinear relationships to employer growth rates in the cross section. Simple statistical models of these relationships greatly improve our ability to account for fluctuations in aggregate worker flows and enable us to construct synthetic measures of hires, separations, quits, and layoffs back to 1990.