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 …

Perspective -- 8 Innovation and Diffusion of Renewables and CHP in the UK: Regulation and Liberalisation -- 9 The Context of …

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 …

The present approach and its problems.-The case for a cross-border-only regulation.-Scope defining “cross …-border”.-An EU consumer transactions regulation.- substantive issues -- private international law issues -- The debate about an … regulation which is applicable to cross-border transactions only. The author considers the constitutional constraints of the EU …