This paper explores the origins and impact of "truth-in-advertising" regulation during the Progressive era. Was … advertising regulation adopted in response to rent-seeking on the part of firms who sought to limit the availability of … advertising as a competitive device? Or was advertising regulation desired because it furnished a mechanism through which firms …

depth of a crisis and the ease and sustainability of recovery, and to analyze their fiscal cost. A consistent framework … eight crisis countries, we find empirically that a package of specific resolution measures can help accelerate the recovery … from a crisis. These policies, however, come with significant fiscal costs …

This paper analyzes the implication of inefficient financial intermediation for crisis management in a country where … analysis for the current policy debate on crisis management is East Asia is that dept reduction, in addition to debt …

In fighting a financial crisis, opacity (keeping the names of banks borrowing at emergency lending facilities secret …