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This section contains Policy Briefs for
SIEPR listed by date. For more information
on a given brief please call our publications
number (650) 725-0483
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Policy
Brief Archive, organized by date |
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Low-Carbon Fuel Standards: Do They Really Work?
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| May 2008 |
By Frank A. Wolak |
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The Credit Crunch and the Flight From the Dollar
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| April 2008 |
By Ronald McKinnon |
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25 Years after the Bell Breakup |
| March 2008 |
By Bruce M. Owen |
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Fiscal Action Versus Monetary Stimulus? A Faulty Comparison |
| February 2008 |
By Volker Wieland |
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The Role of Housing Wealth in College Enrollment |
| February 2008 |
By Michael Lovenheim |
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What Drives Cohort Effects on the Labor Market? |
| January 2008 |
By Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom |
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The FCC’s 700 MHz Auction |
| December 2007 |
By Gregory L. Rosston and Andrzej Skrzypacz |
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Do Schooling Policies Contribute to Schooling
Inequality? School Location Policies in Rural India |
| November 2007 |
By Anjini Kochar |
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Policy Options for Food Assistance in India:
Lessons from the United States |
| October 2007 |
By Thomas MaCurdy and Sriniketh Nagavarapu |
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Americans Do IT Better |
| September, 2007 |
By Nick Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, John Van Reenen |
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Perspectives On the Long-Run Fiscal Outlook |
| July, 2007 |
Alice M. Rivlin and Michael J. Boskin |
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An Ethanol Policy That Benefits All Americans |
| June, 2007 |
Frank A. Wolak |
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Innovation and Intellectual Property –
Issues for Debate |
| May, 2007 |
Christine A. Greenhalgh |
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The Second Billion: The Internet Going Forward |
| April, 2007 |
Ward Hanson |
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The Asymmetric Benefits of Globalization |
| March, 2007 |
Pan A. Yotopoulos |
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The Worth of the Dollar |
| February 2007 |
Ronald McKinnon |
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The Economic Impact of 9/11 |
| January, 2007 |
Nick Bloom |
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| Glass Ceiling Shatterd? |
| December, 2006 |
Eva Meyersson Milgrom |
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| California’s Bold New Climate Policy:
The Challenges Ahead |
| November, 2006 |
Lawrence H. Goulder |
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| The Foreign Aid Paradox |
| October, 2006 |
Roger G. Noll |
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| Living With Inflation in the United States: A New Monetary Rule for China? |
| September, 2006 |
Ronald I. McKinnon |
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| Lower Oil Price Volatility for a Smooth Transition to a Green Energy Future |
| June, 2006 |
Frank A. Wolak |
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| More Efficient Subsidy Scheme Benefits Consumers, Government, and Economy |
| May, 2006 |
Roger Noll and T. N. Srinivasan |
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| China's Exchange Rate Trap: Japan Redux? |
| April, 2006 |
Ronald McKinnon |
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Humpty-Dumpty? Competitive Effects of the AT&T – BellSouth Merger |
| March, 2006 |
Gregory L. Rosston |
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The Rise of Income Inequality in the United States, 1979-2001 |
| February, 2006 |
Victor R. Fuchs |
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The Impact of Mandatory Disclosure Laws on Public Companies: New Evidence from OTC Firms |
| January, 2006 |
Michael Greenstone, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Paul Oyer |
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Perspectives on Tax Reform |
| December, 2005 |
Michael J. Boskin |
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Can Foreign Entry Transform China’s
Banking System? |
| November, 2005 |
Nicholas Hope and Fred Hu |
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The Painful Implementation of California’s Stem Cell Research Program |
| October, 2005 |
Roger G. Noll |
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Should India Use Foreign Exchange Reserves for Financing Infrastructure? |
| September, 2005 |
Charan Singh |
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India Needs to Separate Debt from Monetary
Management |
| June, 2005 |
Charan Singh |
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Straight Talk on Social Security Reform |
| May, 2005 |
Michael J. Boskin |
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Traffic Congestion, Congestion Pricing, and the
Price of Using California’s Freeways |
| April, 2005 |
Bradley Flamm and Gregory Rosston |
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Does Deterrence Work? U.S. Border
Enforcement, Migrant Smuggling, and Illegal
Migration |
| March, 2005 |
Christina Gathmann |
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Exchange Rates, Wages, and International Adjustment: Japan and China versus the United States |
| February, 2005 |
Ronald I. McKinnon |
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| How Sticky Are U.S. Consumer Prices? |
| January, 2005 |
Pete Klenow |
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| Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Is Essential
to California’s Energy Future |
| December, 2004 |
Frank Wolak |
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| Sense and Nonsense About Federal Deficits and Debt |
| November, 2004 |
Michael J. Boskin |
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| U.S. Fiscal Deficits and Lost Jobs
in Manufacturing |
| October, 2004 |
Ronald I. McKinnon |
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| Pricing Political Risks with Prediction Markets |
| June, 2004 |
Justin Wolfers |
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| How to Account for Stock Options |
| May, 2004 |
Jeremy Bulow and John Shoven |
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| Migration can help stabilize poor countries |
| April, 2004 |
Scott Wallsten |
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| The Southern California Grocery Dispute and the State of Labor Unionism |
| March, 2004 |
John Pencavel |
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| The Broadcast Flag Debate
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| February, 2004 |
Ward A. Hanson |
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| The East Asian Dollar Standard
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| January, 2004 |
Ronald I. McKinnon |
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| Can Employers Lead America to a Sustainable Market-Based Health Care System?
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| December 2003 |
Alain Enthoven |
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| The Benefits of an Electron Superhighway
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| November 2003 |
Frank Wolak |
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| The Crisis in Pension Funding
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| October 2003 |
Jeremy Bulow |
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| The FCC's New Television Ownership Rules
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| June 2003 |
Roger G. Noll |
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| Brazil Under Lula: Learning From the Real Plan |
| May, 2003 |
Márcio G. P. Garcia |
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| The FCC and Local Competition |
| April, 2003 |
Gregory L. Rosston |
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| Regulating Fuel Economy:
Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards |
| March, 2003 |
James L. Sweeney |
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| California's Budget Crisis: What Happened? |
| February, 2003 |
Michael Dardia and Thomas McCurdy |
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| China's Private Future |
| January, 2003 |
Nicholas C. Hope and Mu Li |
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| Globalization: Is It Good or Bad? |
| December, 2002 |
T. N. Srinivasan |
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| Teacher Quality and Teacher Salaries |
| November, 2002 |
Eric Hanushek |
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| Stock Options - It's Not Just About Motivation |
| October, 2002 |
Paul Oyer |
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| Enron-Like Accounts of the U.S. Government |
| June, 2002 |
John B. Shoven |
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| Supreme Court decision regarding the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 |
| May 20, 2002 |
Gregory L. Rosston and Roger G. Noll |
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| Making Sense of the Enron Nonsense |
| May, 2002 |
Frank A. Wolak |
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Who is afraid of the brain drain?
Human capital flight and growth in developing countries |
| April, 2002 |
Hillel Rapoport |
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| Will Public Policy Protect the
Architecture of the Internet? |
| March, 2002 |
Paul A. David |
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| U.S. Climate-Change Policy:
The Bush Administration’s Plan and Beyond |
| February, 2002 |
Lawrence H. Goulder |
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| Does the US Subsidize Nuclear Power Insurance? |
| January, 2002 |
Geoffrey S. Rothwell |
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| Broadband Telecommunications Policy: Ending the Chaos |
| December, 2001 |
Roger G. Noll |
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| Antitrust Implications of Echostar-DirecTV
Proposed Merger |
| November, 2001 |
Gregory L. Rosston |
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| Growth Policy |
| October, 2001 |
Paul M. Romer |
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| Mexico's Macroeconomic Policy Dilemma:
How to deal with the "super-peso?" |
| June, 2001 |
José Antonio González |
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| The
Future of Wireless |
| May, 2001 |
Gregory L. Rosston |
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| Can
the World Economy Afford American Tax Cuts? |
| April, 2001 |
Ronald McKinnon |
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| The
Problem with Picking Winners: Evaluating Government
Support for Commercial R & D |
| March, 2001 |
Scott J. Wallsten |
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| What
President Bush Should Do About Social Security |
| February, 2001 |
John B. Shoven |
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| Managing
Crisis: What Do International Organizations
Contribute? |
| January, 2001 |
Anne O. Krueger |
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| The
Future of Managed Care |
| December, 2000 |
Victor R. Fuchs |
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| What
Went Wrong With California’s Restructured
Electricity Market? |
| November, 2000 |
Frank A. Wolak |
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| The
Microsoft Case: Implications for Competition
and Innovation |
| October, 2000 |
Timothy F. Bresnahan |
