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

The author introduces Frank Hatheway and Peter Martyn of NASDAQ and highlights the complexities of trading stocks electronically.

In the last decade, the majority of the world’s stock markets have converted to electronic platforms. In the United States, the New York Stock Exchange remains a human-mediated auction market operated by specialists. The NASDAQ market, however, is electronic, made up of multiple market makers who trade over a network...

New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

As part of the AEI project Beyond "Repeal and Replace," health industry analyst Stephen T. Parente questions whether The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is likely to overcome longstanding economic disincentives to the use of electronic health records.

The central question in securities-market structure is whether investors are better served by human-mediated markets, such as the specialist system of the New York Stock Exchange, or by electronic markets, such as NASDAQ and the Electronic Communication Networks. The Securities and Exchange Commission's recent Regulation NMS, although it purports to...

Some of the most dynamic sectors of the American economy are thriving. The key is to unlock disruptive forces in other sectors. But where?

At this event, AEI visiting scholar R. Richard Geddes, who urged for postal reform in his 2003 AEI Press book "Saving the Mail," will present an updated policy paper that assesses the USPS’s current situation and argues for long-term, concrete reform.