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- Deficits, Interest Rates, and Taxes Myths and Realities
- The federal government's swing from budget surpluses to budget deficits has raised concerns about possible negative economic effects. Some economists have argued that deficits will raise interest rates, reduce economic growth, increase trade deficits, and possibly create a financial crisis. This paper examines those claims and finds that they are...
- White papers 2004-06-29
- Compulsory Licensing vs. the Three "Golden Oldies" Property Rights, Contracts, and Markets
- From its inception in the U.S. in the early 20th century, compulsory licensing has been seen as a means of making intellectual works available by reducing some of the transaction costs associated with obtaining permission to use copyrighted material. There are now increasing calls for compulsory licensing for digitized works...
- White papers 2004-01-15
- The Quality of Corporate Financial Statements and Their Auditors Before and After Enron
- In recent years the financial statements of several large well-known corporations, most notably Enron Corporation and WorldCom, have had to be massively restated. Is this indicative of inadequate accounting and auditing rules or evidence of corporate misgovernance and auditor incompetence? Why did these problems occur, and are they widespread? Answers...
- White papers 2003-11-06
- Threadbare Excuses: The Textile Industry’s Campaign To Preserve Import Restraints
- On January 1, 2005, the textile and apparel quota regime, administered under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, is slated to terminate. The United States is widely perceived to have obstructed implementation of an agreement that was intended to achieve incremental liberalization in four stages over 10...
- White papers 2003-10-15
- The Trade Front: Combating Terrorism With Open Markets
- In May 2003, President Bush announced plans to create an U.S.– Middle East free trade area within a decade. The new trade initiative aims to combat terrorism, and the Islamist extremism that underlies it, by promoting economic and political development in the Muslim world. With the proper commitment and follow-through,...
- White papers 2003-08-05
- The Uses And Abuses Of Structured Finance
- Structured finance is a term widely used but rarely defined. For the purposes of this paper, a simple and broadly accepted definition will be used. A structured financial transaction is any transaction that makes use of an SPE. Unlike many other forms of financing, structured financing generally requires the participation...
- White papers 2003-07-31
- Method To The Merger Madness
- The takeover boom prevalent in the late 20th century ascended the acquisition process. The process however, evoked fear among people against the harmful effects of merger activities. As a result, the Federal agencies pressed into service and formulated merger Laws. However, today, the scenario has changed and the public and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Antidumping 101 The Devilish Details Of “Unfair Trade” Law
- The U.S. antidumping law enjoys broad political support in part because so few people understand how the law actually works. Its rhetoric of “fairness” and “level playing fields” sounds appealing, and its convoluted technical complexities prevent all but a few insiders and experts from understanding the reality that underlies that...
- White papers 2002-11-21
- This Is Reform?: Predicting the Impact of the New Campaign Financing Regulations
- Overall, the allegedly reformed campaign of the future will be less competitive, less controlled by candidates and their parties, and more influenced by the mainstream media and will involve fewer voters than the typical campaign of today. It appears, therefore, that campaign finance regulation's principal goals will not be realized....
- White papers 2002-11-20
- Rethinking The Export-Import Bank
- This paper induces about the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), which is a Great Depression era agency that has little relevance in an era of increasingly open and sophisticated global markets. Subsidized export credit does not noticeably affect the overall level of trade, does not “improve” the U.S. trade balance, and...
- White papers 2002-03-12
- Steel Trap: How Subsidies and Protectionism Weaken the U.S. Steel Industry
- On March 6, President Bush is expected to announce specific Section 201 measures to further protect the domestic steel industry from import competition. By any relevant economic measure, the costs of protection will far exceed the benefits, and any benefits accruing to steel firms from that protection will be fleeting....
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Coming Home To Roost Proliferating Antidumping Laws And The Growing Threat To U.S. Exports
- For decades, the U.S. antidumping law has been abused by domestic industries seeking protection from foreign competition. The surge in new cases reflects the proliferation of antidumping laws in the developing world. The U.S. government continues to resist calls for antidumping reform in international trade negotiations. That opposition reflects the...
- White papers 2001-07-30
- America’s Record Trade Deficit: A Symbol Of Economic Strength
- America’s chronic trade deficit continues to set new records, both for its sheer size in nominal terms and for its share of an expanding gross national product. The record deficit is fueling worry that it could hurt U.S. industry, destroy jobs, burden future generations, and cause the current economic expansion...
- White papers 2001-02-09
- New Anti-Merger Theories: A Critique
- The recent spurt in merger activities has taken the economic market by storm. The emergence of merger techniques has given rise to enforcement of merger laws. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission have begun to enforce merger laws in innovative ways. The paper evaluates the...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Cyberbanking and currency competition
- To a significant degree, the improved inflation performance among developed countries is a result of the increase in effective competition among national currencies. To a very real extent, the world's citizens are already enjoying the advantages of competition among currencies. National monetary authorities are already discovering that to attract...
- White papers 1996-05-23
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- Kidneys for sale: Iranian organ donation
- "WHAT CAN IRAN teach us about good governance?" is not a question often posed in Washington. But according to Benjamin Hippen, a transplant nephrologist in North Carolina, the Iranians have managed to do something American policy makers have long thought impossible: They've found kidneys for every single citizen in need....
- Articles 2008-06-01
- Is congestion pricing answer to gas woes?
- Libertarians have a maddening way of confronting problems with simple supply-and-demand arguments that are hard to refute. So it was last week when Randal O'Toole came by the office to discuss Utah's highway needs. O'Toole is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Libertarian think-tank in...
- Articles 2008-05-18
- The politics of freedom; taking on the left, the right, and threats to our liberties
- The politics of freedom; taking on the left, the right, and threats to our liberties. Boaz, David. Cato Institute 2008 329 pages $22.95 Hardcover JK275 Boaz (executive vice president, Cato Institute) collects approximately 100...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Handout bonanza
- Since the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush has often said that taxpayers spend their money more wisely than the federal government. That sentiment seems to clash with the administration's willingness to prop up businesses and programs with federal subsidies, rather than leaving that money in citizens' hands to spend...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Medicare Meets Mephistopheles.(Book review)
- MEDICARE MEETS MEPHISTOPHELES. By David A. Hyman. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute. 2006. Pp. xviii, 138. Cloth, $14.95; paper $9.95. Most of us look forward to a heaven where people don't get sick. But if they do, health care would be traded among fully informed...
- Articles 2008-04-01
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