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July 25, 2020
 
New Mercatus Research
Is Dodd-Frank the Biggest Law Ever?
Patrick McLaughlin, Mark Febrizio, Oliver Sherouse, and Scott King

Dodd-Frank was passed as a preventative measure intending to address perceived problems in the financial system. On its 10th anniversary, Patrick McLaughlin, Oliver Sherouse, Mark Febrizio, and Scott King empirically assess the size, scope, and complexity of laws and use those methods to analyze what is the largest act of Congress in recent history.

These reflections expose the sheer size and complexity of the law in terms of the volume of regulations resulting from it.

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