Day(s) Monday Wednesday Time(s) 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Course # PPHA 36945 Term Fall 2022 The course is concerned with how corporations respond to regulations and other forms of policy incentives in order to understand how to align regulatory intent and outcomes. Corporations pose special challenges and opportunities for policymakers due to the extreme mutability of corporate organization and behavior. Products, target customers, production methods, services, locational structure, organizational design, legal formalizations and even corporate identity are all subject to rapid change. Further, policy that seeks specific social impact must deal not only with this wide range of potential corporate choice at the firm level, but also the external competitive forces that generate changes often against the will of corporate incumbents. The course will focus on understanding real-world corporate responses, which often frustrate regulators and how regulations could have been designed such that real world outcomes would have come closer to the regulator’s original intent. We will also carefully look at the inherent trade-offs in policy designs to help understand how regulators can set more realistic goals. Syllabus Instructor(s) Steven Strongin Recent News More news Alumni Profile: Sameer Shafi Warraich, MPP’22 Thu., March 28, 2024 Alumni Profile: Will Pennington, MACRM’23 Tue., March 26, 2024 Student Profile: Aïcha Camara, MSCAPP Class of 2024 Thu., March 21, 2024 Upcoming Events More events UChicago Harris International Leadership Credential Information Session Mon., April 01, 2024 | 8:00 AM Harris Evening Master's Program Class Visit—Economic Analysis III: Public Finance and Budgeting With Professor Justin Marlowe Tue., April 02, 2024 | 5:45 PM Convene 311 West Monroe St. 2nd Floor Reception Chicago, IL 60606 United States Data and Policy Summer Scholars Program (DPSS) Chinese Alumni Roundtable Wed., April 03, 2024 | 7:00 AM