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 …

European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …

The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental … policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it … 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) on the power sector. This unique long panel provides us an extended pre-regulation benchmark …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …