Does entry regulation hinder job creation? We investigate this question in the context of the French retail industry, a … indicate that retail employment could have been more than 10% higher today had entry regulation not been introduced. Promoting …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation …

This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …

implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …

This paper examines the distribution of the values of patent rights in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany during …