AEI - Research Project 10

Perfect Competition and Competition-Imposed Price Discrimination

By William J. Baumol | AEI Press: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Friday, March 17, 2006

This monograph shows that price discrimination not only exists in competitive markets but sometimes is a crucial feature of them. [Read more]

Information Markets

A New Way of Making Decisions

Edited By Robert W. Hahn , Paul C. Tetlock | AEI Press
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

This collection of essays provides a state-of-the-art analysis of the potential impact of information markets on public policy and private decision-making. [Read more]

Regulation and the Natural Progress of Opulence

By Sam Peltzman | AEI Press; AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Monday, May 16, 2005

This monograph shows that market forces frequently undermine attempts at regulation, but counterproductive regulation can nevertheless survive for a long time. [Read more]

Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries

Software and Biotechnology

Edited By Robert W. Hahn | AEI Press; AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

In this volume, leading scholars tackle the debate over intellectual property rights in high-technology industries and express their views on how to improve the current system. [Read more]

In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation

By Robert W. Hahn | AEI Press: AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Tuesday, February 1, 2005

This monograph addresses the analytical concerns raised by critics of the economic analysis of regulation. [Read more]

The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Law

By Richard A. Posner , William M. Landes | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Friday, June 11, 2004

This monograph seeks to explain the expansion of intellectual property law over the last half-century, focusing in particular on the rapid growth that began with the 1976 Copyright Act. [Read more]

Building High-Tech Clusters

Silicon Valley and Beyond

By Ashish Arora , Suma Athreye , Erran Carmel , Kevin Davis , Michael Horvath , Gordon Moore , John Richards , AnnaLee Saxenian , Salvatore Torrisi , Catherine de Fontenay , Scott Wallsten , Timothy Bresnahan , Alfonso Gambardella | Cambridge University Press
Friday, April 30, 2004

This study of centers of industrial and technological innovation reveal that these concentrated clusters of entrepreneurial high-tech firms are characterized by rapid economic growth. [Read more]

Economic Reasoning and Judicial Review

By Stephen Breyer | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Sunday, March 21, 2004

This essay, delivered as the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies’s 2003 distinguished lecture, now is available for download and purchase. [Read more]

Lessons from Deregulation

Telecommunications and Airlines after the Crunch

By Alfred E. Kahn | AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Wednesday, December 24, 2003

This book provides a valuable and accessible guide to unraveling the complex world of network deregulation. [Read more]

High-Stakes Antitrust

The Last Hurrah?

Edited By Robert W. Hahn | Brookings Institution Press
Friday, August 1, 2003

Noted scholars with divergent opinions examine the impact and validity of the Justice Department's antitrust actions. [Read more]