Susan E. Dudley
Susan E. Dudley is founder and director of the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center and distinguished professor of practice in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. She was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2007 to 2009. She chairs the Regulatory Transparency Project regulatory process working group, is a senior fellow with the Administrative Conference of the United States, a National Academy of Public Administration fellow, a past president of the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis, and on the board Economists Incorporated. She has authored numerous articles on regulation, as well as the book, Regulation: A Primer, with Jerry Brito.
Antitrust and Competition
Let’s Not Forget George Stigler’s Lessons about Regulatory Capture
George Stigler’s theory of economic regulation opened our eyes to the rent-seeking that undermines the public interest. Yet many in positions to...
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Delaware: The State Where Companies Can Vote
Adapted from What’s the Matter with Delaware: How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal—and How It Costs Us...
Antitrust and Competition
The NCAA Goes After College Athletes’ NIL Money—Here are the Antitrust Implications for Workers and Consumers
Having lost in the Supreme Court on student-athlete academic benefits, the NCAA has signaled a continuing attempt to suppress competition in the...
Corporate Governance
Have Business Roundtable Companies Lived Up to Their Stakeholder Commitments? Â
In 2019, more than 100 CEOs of US public companies signed a Business Roundtable statement in which they pledged to deliver value...
Inequality
Do Protests Matter At All for Shifting Government Policy Around Economic Redistribution?
New research on the effectiveness of protests on government distributions provides insights into the political incentives of a country’s leadership and the...
Antitrust and Competition
Mergers and Smoking Guns
A recently uncovered memo from George Stigler and Richard Posner reveals how they thought about antitrust and merger policy in advising the...
Corporate Governance
Will “Portfolio Primacy” Throw a Monkey Wrench in Elon Musk’s Plans to Acquire Twitter?
The SEC's definition of fiduciary duty allows institutional shareholders to vote against Elon Musk's Twitter takeover bid thanks to portfolio primacy.
Antitrust and Competition
How Europe Can Enforce the Digital Markets Act EffectivelyÂ
Alexandre de Streel, Fiona Scott Morton, Jacques Crémer, Amelia Fletcher, Paul Heidhues, Giorgio Monti, Rupprecht Podszun, Monika Schnitzer
As the European Commission gets ready to embark on the complicated task of implementing the recently agreed-upon Digital Market Act, which would...