hypothesis that regulation is constraining the supply of housing so that increased demand leads to much higher prices, not many …

Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

somehow help solve the public goods problem inherent in workplace regulation. Second, the agent must be able to reduce the …

. Consistent with firms seeking to avoid costly regulation, we document significant bunching around multiple regulatory thresholds …