We investigate the impact of reporting regulation on corporate innovation activity. Exploiting thresholds in Europe …'s regulation and a major enforcement reform in Germany, we find that forcing a greater share of firms to publicly disclose their … concentrate innovation among a few large firms in a given industry. In sum, financial reporting regulation has important …

feature of market economies, is inherently vulnerable to runs in all its forms (not just demand deposits). Bank regulation … aims at preventing bank runs. History shows two approaches to bank regulation: the use of high quality collateral to back …

We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation … by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for … activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to raise the likelihood of self-regulation. Results are reversed when the …

We provide causal evidence that regulation induced product shocks significantly impact aggregate demand and firm … receiving expedited review are more likely to suffer from regulation induced product shocks. Thus, it appears we may be trading …

quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …

years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …-prudential regimes internationally. For such regulation to be effective in controlling the aggregate supply of credit it must be the case …

the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more … endogeneity, confused issues of speed and level of privatization, and did not face up to the problems of multicollinearity. Our … results suggest that, contrary to the earlier literature, the speed of privatization is negatively associated with growth, but …