Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regulation. Show all posts
Sunday, November 2, 2025

Surrogacy, and escrow accounts

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  Surrogacy contracts involve a long term relationship, focused on a nine month pregnancy.  So commercial surrogacy depends on secure financ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Regulating markets for antiquities, to more effectively compete with black markets (Kremer and Wilkening in JEP)

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 Bans on illegally recovering, selling, and exporting archeological antiquities often result in black markets.  Michael Kremer and Tom Wilke...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Market design podcast on NPR's Planet Money (with Alex Teytelboym)

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  Alex Teytelboym comments throughout a program about market design on NPR's Planet Money:   The episode focuses on the design o...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Sunday, July 20, 2025

Organ donation after circulatory death: the NYT recounts some disturbing cases

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 The NYT has a disturbing story this morning about organ donation after circulatory death. These are cases in which a decision has been made...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Prolific sperm donation and incest risk in the Netherlands

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 The Guardian has the story: ‘Medical calamity’: dozens of Dutch sperm donors fathered at least 25 children .  Discovery that clinics have b...
Friday, January 17, 2025

FDA Proposes Reducing Nicotine to Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes: I see 5 possible futures

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 Here's the FDA press release: FDA Proposes Significant Step Toward Reducing Nicotine to Minimally or Nonaddictive Level in Cigarettes a...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Sports gambling presents problems for gamblers, athletes, and sports

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  Sports betting has some potentially dire implications both for betters and for athletes and sports. Gamblers can find in-app gambling whil...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Regulating emerging technologies

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  Here's a recent RAND report, on the current diverse attempts to regulate emerging biotechnologies, focusing on organoids,* embryos, ge...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Regulating nicotine is a cat and mouse game

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 Attempts to regulate (and tax) cigarettes and related nicotine-addicting products are a cat and mouse game. Many laws regulate "tobacc...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

New rules for evaluating transplant centers

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 Historically, transplant centers ('hospitals') have been primarily evaluated on the one year graft survival on the transplants that...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

The market for (ethical) pornography

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  Will regulation, lawsuits and competition for creators increase the supply of ethical porn? Wired has the story: The Sticky Dilemmas of Po...
Friday, November 22, 2024

America Has an Organ Shortage. Could Paying Donors Close the Gap? Podcast from BYU radio.

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 Here's a podcast on the shortage of organs for transplant, and on the controversies about compensating organ donors, and plasma donors....
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Kim Krawiec interview about WHO demands for national self sufficiency in blood donation and kidney exchange

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  The University of Virginia takes note of the recent Krawiec & Roth paper I blogged about in August . Here is their interview with Kim ...
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Regulation of Organ Transplantation and Procurement (Chan and Roth in the JPE)

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  Here's a new paper (in final form, online ahead of print) on how organ transplants are regulated.  The paper uses an experiment to mak...
Monday, August 12, 2024

Kidney exchange in Brazil: prelude

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 Yesterday I flew home from a busy visit to Brazil, with Mike Rees and Dr. Gustavo Ferreira .   On Wednesday we all traveled to the capital...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Surrogacy in Israel

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In Israel, where commercial surrogacy is legal, surrogates are more and more coming from educated and religious communities.  Haaretz has th...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Growth pains for legal marijuana, in Germany and New York

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Transitioning from a thriving black market for marijuana to a regulated legal market isn't so easy. The Guardian has the story from Germ...