An analysis of business practices that may limit the options of purchasers or resellers in particular ways, focusing broadly on the issue of "vertical restraints."

Initiatives to expand regulation of the food industries with the overall goal of increasing competition and commodity prices farmers receive often have the unintended consequence of raising consumer prices and lowering farmers’ prices while reducing the quality and variety of food products available to consumers.

Antitrust has focused heavily on issues of "vertical restraints"—everything from, for example, giving distributors exclusive sales territories to tying access of one product to the purchase of another. A few decades ago, legal opinion almost uniformly viewed these vertical restraints as anticompetitive. Today, however, both the courts and...

The authors address claims that vertical ownership ties reduce programming diversity, restrict entry of competitors to cable, or have other socially undesirable effects.

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At...

US government foreign assistance health programs are currently focused on combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, which account for several million deaths each year across Africa. The United States should prioritize sustaining the hard-won gains in disease control, which requires focusing on programs with proven track records of success and addressing failures within those programs.

Waiting to act until the Supreme Court has made its decision on ObamaCare proves risky for all involved. 

The risk-retention requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) were enacted in the belief that they would improve thequality and reduce the risk of securitized mortgages by requiring securitizers to have -skin in the game.