. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …

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 …

formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …

as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest … objectives can in fact reinforce one another. I also discuss aspects of macroeconomic policies and cross-border regulation that …

of regulation and is almost exclusively based on international cross-section data for the post-1995 period. This paper …

We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of … some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to … parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases total discounted project expenditure over a regime of no regulation …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …