"We use two micro data sets that collect harmonized data across countries to investigate the effects of regulation on … regulation we use, we always find a detrimental effect of regulation on entrepreneurship. While women are overall less likely to … opportunity but because they could not find better work. Moreover, regulation dampens the effects of self-assessed business skills …

highly correlated errors and shared analytical blind spots. The transnational harmonization of regulation has well … regulation, analysis, and practice, and instead focus on managing policy diversity to limit its costs. This paper's theoretical …. Harmonisierung von Regulierung auf transnationaler Ebene hat bekannte Vorteile, jedoch schafft sie - insbesondere in technokratischen …

countries and industries and have evolved differently over time. We argue that differences in regulation have played an …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation …, while regulation in turn discourages social capital accumulation, leading to multiple equilibria. A key implication of the …