-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts …We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …

This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …

One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …

link between gasoline content regulation and the compliance behavior of refineries. We find that in areas with more … stringent gasoline regulation, there was increased compliance on the part of firms. -- Clean Air Act ; compliance behavior … ; energy markets ; product regulation ; petroleum refining ; environmental pollution …

of individual and societal factors. The reactions "Government Regulation", "Flooding", "Passive Escape: Digital Detox …

assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …

bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the …