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ECONOMICS 230
T TH 10:00-11:15am
Old Mill 221
Course Syllabus
(pdf file)
Schedule
for Presentations (pdf file)
OFFICE HOURS (Old Mill 338)
- Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00pm
KEY DATES
- Midterm (Wednesday, October 14th)
- Term paper (Friday, December 4th)
- In-class presentation of an article on the reading list
(see schedule above)
- Three page written summary of a different article on the
reading list (see schedule above)
Note: The midterm will be
held during regular class time. If
you miss a test without a valid excuse, you will receive a grade of
zero!
READINGS
Market Failure and the Public Interest Theory of Regulatoin
- Breyer (1980). "Typical Justifications for Regulation." (pdf)
- Greer (1993). "The Market: Ideal and Real." (pdf)
Collective Choice Issues
- Stevens (1993). "Direct (Participatory) Government." (pdf)
Interest Group Theories of
Regulation
- Stigler (1971). "The Economic Theory of Regulation." (pdf)
- Mitchell and Munger (1991). "Economic Models of Interest
Groups: An Introductory Survey." (pdf)
Does Regulation Work Properly.
- Stigler and Friedland (1962).
"What Can Regulators Regulate? The Case of Electricity." (pdf)
- Krueger (1990). "The
Political Economy of Controls: American Sugar." (pdf)
Empirical cross-country and
cross-state evidence on regulation.
- Mulligan and Shleifer (2005). "The Extent of the Market and
the Supply of Regulation." (pdf)
- Djankov, La Porta, Lopes-de-Silanes and Shleifer (2002).
"The Regulation of Entry." (pdf)
- Botero, Djankov, La Porta, Lopes-de-Silanes, and Shleifer
(2004). "The Regulation of Labor." (pdf)
- La Porta, Lopes-de-Silanes, Shleifer and Vishny (1998).
"Law and Finance." (pdf)
The Early Federal Regulatory
State: The ICC, Meat Inspection, and Antitrust
- Gilligan, Marshall and Weingast (1989). "Regulation and the
Theory of Legislative Choice: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887."
(pdf).
- Libecap (1992). "The Rise of the Chicago Packers and the
Origins of Meat Inspection and Antitrust." (pdf)
- Bittlingmayer (1996). "Antitrust and Business Activity: The
First Quarter Century." (pdf)
- Ross (1984). "Winners and Losers under the Robinson-Patman
Act." (pdf)
Causes and Consequences of
Environmental Regulation
- Pashigian (1985). "Environmental Regulation: Whose Self
Interests are Being Protected?" (pdf)
- Becker and Henderson (2000). "Effects of Air Quality
Regulation on Polluting Industries." (pdf)
- Ringquist (1993). "Does Regulation Matter: Evaluating the
Effects of State Air Pollution Programs." (pdf)
- Chay and Greenstone (2003). "Air Quality, Infant Mortality,
and the Clean Air Act of 1970." (pdf)
Origins and Effects of Safety
Regulations
- Fishback and Kantor (1998). "Adoption of Workers'
Compensation in the United States." (pdf)
- Viscusi (1979). "Impact of Occupational Health and Safety
Regulation." (pdf)
- Peltzman (1987). "Health Effects of Mandatory
Prescriptions." (pdf)
- Viscusi (1985). "Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects
of Product Safety Regulations." (pdf)
- Sen (2001). "An Empirical Test of the Offset Hypothesis."
(pdf)
- Levitt and Doyle (2006). "Evaluating the Effectiveness of
Child Safety Seats and Seatbelts in Protecting Children from Injury."
(pdf)
- Kleiner and Kudrle (2000). "Does Regulation Affect Economic
Outcomes: The Case of Dentistry." (pdf)
Food and Drugs Regulation:
Causes and Consequences
- Dupre (1999). "If It's Yellow, It Must be Butter:
Margarine Regulation in North America Since 1886." (pdf)
- Law (2003). "The Origins of State Pure Food Regulation."
(pdf)
- Grabowski, Vernon, and Thomas (1978). "Estimating the
Effects of Regulation on Innovation: An International Comparative
Analysis of the Pharmaceutical Industry." (pdf)
- Olson (1997). "Firms' Influences on FDA Drug Approval."
(pdf)
- Olson (2002). "Pharmaceutical Policy Change and the Safety
of New Drugs." (pdf)
The Regulation of Advertising
- Law and Hansen (2008). "The Political Economy of
Truth-in-Advertising Regulation during the Progressive Era." (pdf)
- Milyo and Waldfogel (1999). "The Effects of Price
Advertising on Prices: Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart." (pdf).
Last
updated: October 4, 2009
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