How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new … light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to estimate the impact of India's vast … estimated impact of railroads. These results suggest that transportation infrastructure projects can improve welfare …

disparate distribution of infrastructure, and that of education, and to an extent by a number of macroeconomic indicators, that …

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European … controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what extent transport infrastructure endowment - proxied by regional motorways … - has contributed to regional growth in the EU between 1990 and 2004. It analyses infrastructure in relationship to other …

Really Responsive Regulation seeks to add to current theories of enforcement by stressing the case for regulators to be …

Principles-based regulation is high on the regulatory agenda in a number of regulatory domains, most particularly … financial regulation. Its supporters argue that it provides a flexible regulatory regime which can facilitate innovation; its … detractors argue that it is simply lax regulation. This article explores the political rhetoric surrounding principles …

We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then … synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available … use regulation is, compared to regulation in other contexts, significantly neglected. We hope that this special issue …

global risk regulation can achieve in the face of highly politicised conflict, but it also shows significant cooperation …

from the history of financial market regulation. …