Consumer protection takes more than transparency
The principles of transparency and disclosure are visible everywhere from fast-food menus to financial regulation. But if lawmakers don’t consider the behavior of both markets and consumers, better information may not translate to smarter shoppers.
Is Dodd-Frank an instrument of social change?
Policymakers have succeeded in using financial regulation to effect nonfinancial change.
Public audit oversight may lower costs
Government oversight and regulation is routinely disparaged in boardrooms, but critics may want to reconsider their stance.
Public audit oversight may lower costs
Government oversight and regulation is routinely disparaged in boardrooms, but critics may want to reconsider their stance.