We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …

macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure …

We study firm responses to a large-scale change in apprenticeship regulation in Colombia. The reform requires firms to …

-form eigenvalues show that stricter entry regulation results in slower convergence to steady state. …

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …

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 …