countries, we find that: (i) competition-enhancing regulation is associated with a higher rate of firm churning; (ii) business … regulation can be indirectly associated, via its impact on business dynamism, with the somewhat weak productivity performance in …

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 …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

We analyse the cross-border propagation of prudential regulation in the euro area. Using the Prudential Instruments …

has partial control over bank regulation it can exercise regulatory lenience. Two, the Fed's stronger output orientation … procyclical capital regulation …