judicially enforced private contracts, judicially enforced laws, or even government regulation, may be the cheapest way to bring … strategies may sometimes be the best. This paper compares the regulation of financial markets in Poland and the Czech Republic in … the Czech Republic, hands-off regulation was associated with a near collapse of the stock market. These episodes …

as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that …

the heterogeneity of the effect of entry, contract enforcement regulation, and financial development on both the decision … the level of regulation and financial development and some individual characteristics that are important determinants of … entrepreneurship, such as gender, business skills, and social networks. We find that entry regulation moderates the effect of business …

This paper illustrates the paradox of prudential under-regulation in an economy that adopts financial reform, a reform … probability of the crisis is updated sequentially applying Bayesian inference. Costly regulation can mitigate the probability of … the crisis. We identify conditions where the regulation level supported by the majority is positive after the reform, but …

We investigate the causes and consequences of financial regulation by studying the political economy of U.S. state … affected by rate ceilings. Exploiting the heterogeneity across states and time in regulation, enforcement, and market … conditions, we find that regulation tightens when it is less costly and when it coexists with other economic and political …

Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …

Regulation and the negligence rule are both designed to obtain compliance with desired standards of behavior, but they … differ in a primary respect: compliance with regulation is ordinarily assessed independently of the occurrence of harm … use of the negligence rule is triggered by harm, the rule enjoys an intrinsic enforcement cost advantage over regulation …