This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation …

The paper empirically examines the implementation record of international financial regulation of the banking sector … record is particularly strong in countries where large banking sectors and big banks are both present, and where regulation …

regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to …: it rises as regulation stringency moves from low to medium levels and falls from medium to high levels. Countries located …

. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and …We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist—who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties—and consumer surplus …

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …