Published Research

• The Case for Electronic Cash: Why Private Peer-to-Peer Payments are Essential to an Open Society, Coin Center (2019).
• State Digital Currency Principles and Framework, Coin Center (2017). With Peter Van Valkenburg.
• Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers, Mercatus Center (2016). With Andrea Castillo.
• Bitcoin Financial Regulation: Securities, Derivatives, Prediction Markets & Gambling, 16 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 144 (2014). With Houman Shadab & Andrea Castillo.
• Cryptocurrency, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2014). With Eli Dourado.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: "Agency Threats" and the Rule of Law, 37 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 553 (2014).
• Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess, Mercatus Center (2012).
• Regulation: A Primer, Mercatus Center (2012). With Susan Dudley.
• Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy, 3 Harvard National Security Journal 39 (2011). With Tate Watkins.
• Running for Cover: The BRAC Commission as a Model for Federal Spending Reform, 9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 131 (2010).
• Transparency and Performance in Government, 11 North Carolina Journal of Law & Tech. 161 (2010). With Drew Perraut.
• All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data, Open Government (Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma, eds., O’Reilly 2010)
• Midnight Regulations and Regulatory Review, 61 Administrative Law Review 163 (2009). With Veronique de Rugy.
• Toward a More Perfect Union: Regulatory Analysis and Performance Management, 8 Florida State Business Law Review 1 (2009). With Jerry Ellig.
• Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency, 9 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 119 (2008).
• A Tale of Two Commissions: Net Neutrality and Regulatory Analysis, 16 CommLaw Conspectus 1 (2007). With Jerry Ellig.
• Growth in Regulation Slows: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008, The 29th Annual Regulators' Budget Report. With Melinda Warren. June 2007.
• Sending out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem, 59 Federal Communications Law Journal 3 (2007).
• Video Killed the Franchise Star: The Consumer Cost of Cable Franchising and Policy Alternatives, 5 Journal on Telecomm. & High Tech. Law 199 (2006). With Jerry Ellig.
• The Spectrum Commons in Theory and Practice, 2007 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (2007).
• An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions, 12 Michigan Telecomm. & Tech. Law Review 75 (2005). With Bridget Dooling.
• Much Ado about Nothing: The Effects of the Post-Enactment Acquisition Rule in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 14 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 543 (2005).
• Relax, Don't Do It: Why RFID Privacy Concerns Are Exaggerated and Legislation Is Premature, 2004 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology 5 (2004).