Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Keyword "Regulatory Policy"
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Real-Time Economic Analysis and Policy Development During the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill posed near-term economic risks to the Gulf of Mexico region and raised questions about appropriate policies to mitigate catastrophic oil spill risks. This essay reviews the Obama ... -
Reducing Nuclear Dangers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of nuclear weapons did not disappear when the Cold War ... -
The Regulation of Consumer Financial Products: An Introductory Essay with Four Case Studies
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)The recent financial crisis has led many to question how well businesses deliver consumer financial services and how well regulatory institutions address problems in consumer financial markets. In response, the Obama ... -
Responding to Threats of Climate Change Mega-Catastrophes
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger “mega-catastrophes,” severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad regions. This paper first discusses the state of current ... -
The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2012)The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was ... -
Standard Oil as a Technological Innovator
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its path-breaking decision in the monopolization case against the Standard Oil Companies. Standard pleaded inter alia that its near-monopoly position was the result of ... -
Three Key Elements of Post-2012 International Climate Policy Architecture
(John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010)We describe three essential elements of an effective post-2012 international global climate policy architecture: a means to ensure that key industrialized and developing nations are involved in differentiated but meaningful ... -
The Trouble with Cases
(2009)For several decades now a debate has raged about policy-making by litigation. Spurred by the way in which tobacco, environmental, and other litigation has functioned as an alternative form of regulation, the debate asks ... -
Willingness to Pay and Political Support for a U.S. National Clean Energy Standard
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)In 2010 and 2011, Republicans and Democrats proposed mandating clean power generation in the electricity sector. To evaluate public support for a national clean energy standard (NCES), we conducted a nationally representative ...