Analysis

Private international organizations increasingly set the rules for business activity around the world, but domestic institutions still matter even in setting global rules.

Report finds consumer harm in rise of pay-for-delay agreements.

Defining open government and conceptualizing its success are key first steps in developing a transparency research agenda.

Could regulatory PAYGO work like legislative PAYGO?

The SEC eliminates references to CRA ratings from its rules, while the EU increases its oversight of CRAs.

Studies show that the environmental and health benefits of the EPA’s proposed rule would significantly outweigh its compliance costs.

New National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences works with pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs.

The President reaches out to the business community in an effort to stake out a middle ground.

Regulation of greenhouse gas emissions may proceed by linking together multiple national cap-and-trade systems.

State and federal policymakers are scrutinizing regulations for the costs they may impose on the recovering economy.

The Supreme Court decides that federal statutes preempt state lawsuits over vaccinations.

Two clinical testing laboratories may now merge after judges reject the FTC’s arguments for blocking the merger.