traditionally left to competing provincial securities commissions. The current state of securities regulation renders impotent US …-style takeover defences, such as poison pills and staggered boards, but allows voting caps and pyramiding in their stead. Various … federal securities regulation models are weighted in light of the current state of their needed complementary institutions …

produce even worse takeover arrangements. This paper puts forward a novel form of federal intervention in the regulation of … that such a federal role in takeover law cannot harm and would likely improve the regulation of takeovers. Moreover, by …The development of U.S. state takeover law in the past three decades has produced considerable and quite possibly …

There are two commonly accepted views about command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulation. First, CAC delivers … examine India's experience and find evidence that CAC policies achieved substantial environmental benefits at a relatively low … cost. Constructing an establishment-level panel from 1998 to 2009, we find that the CAC regulations imposed by India …

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …