The capture theory of regulation, popularized in an article by Nobel laureate George Stigler, concludes that regulatory agencies become “captured” by the firms they regulate. Regulatory agencies act in the best interest of the firms they regulate, rather than serving the general public interest. This occurs partly because regulated firms have a concentrated interest in regulatory outcomes whereas the general…
Tag: Economics
Honors Thesis Spotlight: The Effect of Public Renewable Energy Spending on Economic Growth in the EU
Climate change, pollution, greenhouse gasses, and other environmental factors of fossil fuels have led to research about renewable energy and its viability. Transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy has become increasingly innovative and efficient within the past couple of decades. The European Union is one of the leading advocates, which this study aims…
Research Quick Take: Strategy Adjustments in Games with a Dynamic Public Bad: Experimental Evidence
Economists see environmental contamination and climate change as a social dilemma among polluting industries. A company in a polluting industry has to make a decision. They can profit more in the short term by engaging in more industrial production, but they generate a potentially costly “social bad” that all actors have to deal with in…
Research Quick Take: Spatializing the Municipal Bond Market: Urban Resilience under Racial Capitalism
The number of majority-Black cities and towns in the United States has more than doubled in the past 50 years, including 21 cities of more than 100,000 people. An ongoing and dynamic process of “white flight” is mainly responsible for this trend. While many US cities are global cities, hubs of wealth, power, information, and…
Graduate Student Spotlight: William Stevenson from the Department of Economics
What department are you a graduate student in? I am currently a graduate student in the Master in Applied Economics program. Why did you decide to go to graduate school? I decided to enter the graduate program for the value. I graduated when COVID was still at its height and I was curious about what…
Research Spotlight: Telling Stories with Data
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in data-focused job opportunities for our social sciences students. Several programs are revamping analytics to produce effective data scientists for enterprises. Students are well-aware of an increase in the importance of data literacy and have shown great interest in learning it. Being literate with data and…
Research Quick Take
Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “Religious Involvement and Substance Use Among Urban Mothers” by Dr. Amy Burdette In her recent article, Dr. Burdette uses longitudinal data from the U.S. Fragile Families…
Graduate Student Spotlight: Harry Hewson from the Department of Economics
What department are you a graduate student in? I am currently in the Master’s of Science in Applied Economics Program. I will graduate in July. Why did you decide to go to graduate school? After getting my BA from the University of Miami (sigh, I know, I know) in Economics and Political Science in May…
Research Quick Take
Here at the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (COSSPP), our faculty have been quite busy! Here are some of the projects that our faculty have recently published. “The subjective life course framework: Integrating life course sociology with gerontological perspectives on subjective aging” by Dr. Anne Barrett In her recent article, Dr. Barrett studies…
How the Disney debacle broke the back of Florida’s conservative consensus | Opinion
This article originally appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat. The Republican retribution against Disney involved with dissolving the Reedy Creek Improvement District is striking in its swiftness, cattiness, and irrationality. The brazen partisanship that drove the legislation may have also broken the back of the principled conservative consensus that built much of Florida’s prosperity. Perhaps the…
Wicked Problems, Wicked Solutions 