Contents
Part I: Health Care Reform
1. The Health Care Reform Legislation: An Overview
Chapin White
2. The Simple Economics of Health Reform
David M. Cutler
3. The Economics, Opportunities, and Challenges of Health Insurance Exchanges
Mark G. Duggan and Robert Kocher
4. Can the ACA Improve Population Health?
Dana P. Goldman and Darius N. Lakdawalla
5. Systemic Reform of Health Care Delivery and Payment
Henry J. Aaron
6. How Stable Are Insurance Subsidies in Health Reform?
Mark V. Pauly
Part II: Financial Market Regulatory Reform
7. Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial
Richard A. Posner
8. Government Guarantees: Why the Genie Needs to Be Put Back in the Bottle
Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson
9. How Little We Know: The Challenges of Financial Reform
Russell Roberts
10. Finding the Sweet Spot for Effective Regulation
R. Glenn Hubbard
11. A Recipe for Ratings Reform
Charles W. Calomiris
12. Should Banker Pay Be Regulated?
Steven N. Kaplan
13. Fixing Bankers’ Pay
Lucian A. Bebchuk
14. It Works for Mergers, Why Not for Finance?
Aaron S. Edlin and Richard J. Gilbert
Part III: Financial Crisis and Bailouts
15. Hedge Fund Wizards
Dean P. Foster and H. Peyton Young
16. Investment Banking Regulation After Bear Stearns
Dwight M. Jaffee and Mark Perlow
17. Why Paulson Is Wrong
Luigi Zingales
18. Dr. StrangeLoan: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Financial Collapse
Aaron S. Edlin
19. Questioning the Treasury’s $700 Billion Blank Check: An Open Letter to Secretary Paulson
Aaron S. Edlin
20. Auction Design Critical for Rescue Plan
Lawrence M. Ausubel and Peter Cramton
21. A Better Plan for Addressing the Financial Crisis
Lucian A. Bebchuk
22. Please Think This Over
Edward E. Leamer
23. Is Macroeconomics Off Track?
Casey B. Mulligan
24. If It Were a Fight, They Would Have Stopped It in December of 2008
Robert J. Barbera
25. Comment on Barbera: Your Gift Will Make You Rich
Casey B. Mulligan
Part IV: Innovations in Policy and Business
26. Pension Security Bonds: A New Plan to Address the State Pension Crisis
Joshua Rauh and Robert Novy-Marx
27. Carbon Taxes to Move Toward Fiscal Sustainability
William D. Nordhaus
28. Net Neutrality Is Bad Broadband Regulation
Robert E. Litan and Hal J. Singer
29. Trills Instead of T-Bills: It’s Time to Replace Part of Government Debt with Shares in GDP
Mark J. Kamstra and Robert J. Shiller
30. The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick?
Pamela Samuelson
31. The Stakes in the Google Book Search Settlement
Paul N. Courant
32. The NFL Should Auction Possession in Overtime Games
Yeon-Koo Che and Terrence Hendershott
Index