Thanks to Carl Schramm, Robert Litan and the legacy of Ewing Marion Kauffman himself, new directions beckon.

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Mr. ROBERT LITAN (Brookings Institution): I think the change is largely cosmetic.

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But Robert Litan, an economist at the Brookings Institution, is skeptical.

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" Concurs Robert Litan, a Brookings Institution economist who has completed a study of ATM fees for the American Bankers Association: "There is no justification for imposing surcharge bans on any type of ATM owner.

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"If you're a university professor you get in line with everyone else, and some bureaucrat is going to decide whether you get their attention, " says Robert Litan, vice president in charge of research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City.

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