What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better … exogenous variation in regulation generated by the interaction of reform and its institutional determinants, we find a …

reform, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other hand …We use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be conducive to …, authoritarian regimes do not have to worry as much about public opinion and may undertake reforms that are painful in the short run …

-economic reforms. Previous studies suggest that natural resource abundance gives rise to governments that are less accountable to the … economic reforms. We test this hypothesis using data on microeconomic reforms from the World Bank’s Doing Business database … on resource abundance equals 10.9 percentage points more reform, a large effect given that the mean probability of reform …

adopting costly reforms with future benefits and reconciles it with the evidence that reformist governments are not punished by … voters. To do so, it proposes a model of elections where political ability is ex-ante unknown and investment in reforms is …, politicians make too little reforms in an attempt to signal high ability and increase their reappointment probability. Although in …

structural reforms of the Welfare State and the slowness of concrete steps in the overall administrative reform and in the …

implemented a comprehensive set of institutional reforms. In this Paper we present a theoretical and empirical framework to …

to institute a faster past of reform of domestic economic institutions if it hopes to promote innovation and …

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain …