country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …

market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … findings are relevant for transition or emerging economies as well as for mature market economies requiring large structural …

occupational licensing is an important labor market phenomenon that can be measured in labor force surveys. …

Using firm-level data for a sample of European countries, we focus on the effects that product-market regulations have …. 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 …

Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using … set of covariates, results show that product market deregulation overall reduces the unemployment rate. This finding is … rate. Labour market deregulation, proxied by the employment protection legislation index, is detrimental to unemployment in …