New papers on Policy & governance
16 new papers on policy & governance in the last 7 days, within Economy & society. These are the 16 Pipette rates most worth reading, with the main result in the authors' own words.
The best of the week
The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI
The Article proposes a layered law of stop: emergency authority to interrupt at the infrastructure layer, enforceable access for regulators and independent evaluators to the evidence a stop must rest on, and safeguards for when a stop fails.
PreprintReal-world useThe Disciplinary Language Transfer Problem: How Psychological Vocabulary Produces Governance Failures in AI Agent Deployment
The paper's practical output is an actionable Disciplinary Audit: a six-question governance document scan operationalized through a translation taxonomy of thirty-seven terms mapping operational constructs to agent-appropriate replacements, presented here in abridged form and openly archived in full.
PreprintReal-world useBeyond PUE: A Local Impact Audit Framework for Data Center Environmental Accountability
We propose a five-category local impact audit framework covering efficiency, water stewardship, carbon and renewables, regulatory compliance, and local disclosure.
PreprintReal-world useThe Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations
To address this gap, we propose a governance framework that proceduralizes ethical constraints through named accountability roles, adversarial auditing with undisclosed benchmarks, tiered deployment thresholds, and a proposed NATO evaluation standard.
PreprintReal-world useDo Drug Consumption Rooms Reduce Drug-Related Hospitalizations? Evidence from Switzerland
DCR openings reduce drug-related hospitalization rates by roughly 35% within 5 km of a facility.
PreprintReal-world useEmbedded Assessments for Frontier AI
We recommend that frontier AI developers begin hosting embedded assessments now, covering at least three areas central to managing risks from internal AI use: internal agent monitoring, internal agent security controls and permissions, and model alignment.
PreprintReal-world useThe Moral Check: Strategic AI Governance for the Pacing Problem
We deliver a dual contribution: a PRISMA 2020 review synthesizing 130 empirical studies (MMAT-appraised across 18 benchmarks; total corpus N = 130 empirical studies across 178 reference foundations), and the Strategic AI Governance Ex-Ante Framework (SAGE-X).
PreprintBold claims, read criticallyReal-world useCompliant AI Infrastructure for Regulated Finance: A tiered multi-agent framework with DLT audit trails for financial operations in DACH
The result is assurance by construction: compliance is embedded in execution and verifiable by auditors without sacrificing proportionality or transparency.
Preprint with a published versionReal-world useClick, Branch, Audit: A Decision-Tree Toolkit for Assessing Fundamental Rights Impacts under the Digital Services Act of Very Large Platforms & Search Engines
We contribute an extensible methodological foundation for making fundamental-rights risk assessments under the DSA more streamlined, systematic, transparent, and auditable.
PreprintReal-world useAsset-Class Specific Sustainability Disclosure: Lessons Learned from the EU MiCA Regulation
Drawing on a policy and legal analysis of MiCA and its Level 2 measures, and on early implementation evidence from public registers and market practice, this paper shows how the policy approach shifted from debates about restricting energy-intensive consensus mechanisms to a transparency regime built on quantitative metrics, machine-readable reporting, and methodological alignment with the broader EU sustainable-finance framework.
PreprintReal-world useMulti-Agent AI Architecture for Regulated Insurers: A generic AI framework under Solvency II and the AI Act in Austria and Germany
This paper proposes a formal multi-agent architecture for implementing enterprise AI in regulated insurance firms, integrating economic theory with institutional design.
Preprint with a published versionReal-world useBuilding governance reform without accountability transfer invites urban disaster
Building governance reforms can displace accountability rather than transfer it.
Peer-reviewed journalBold claims, read criticallyReal-world useEasy to readAudit the Auditors: Commitment versus Professional Judgment
Our analysis demonstrates that the stakeholder prefers the peer review system if and only if the private signal is sufficiently informative.
PreprintWhite House efforts to control NIH grants lead to new court challenge and Oval Office tussle
Lawsuit argues political screening of grants violates researchers' freedom of speech.
Peer-reviewed journalBroad interestEasy to readMeasuring the effects of alternatives to policing in an American city
CAHOOTS data provide an opportunity to examine how three new diversion metrics clarify the measurable benefits, limits, and policy significance of an alternative-to-policing program.
Peer-reviewed journalEnhancing Europe’s competitiveness by empowering researchers as innovators
Overlooked opportunities can help turn academic research into socioeconomic impact across Europe.
Peer-reviewed journalEasy to read