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Additional issues covered by scholars in this research division are health care economics (including the Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceuticals), the Open Source Policy Center, the US housing market, and financial services such as the regulation of banks.
Michael R. Strain is the director of Economic Policy Studies at AEI, where he is also the Arthur F. Burns Scholar in Political Economy.
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