computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …

characteristics of the bills in the case of the 10-year yields as a lower readability partly offsets the negative relationship for up … offsetting evidence, but only for a part of the readability measures employed in this paper. …

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …

Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …

Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …

observed changes in policies, the paper finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five … market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects …