. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the …

Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …

accentuating the role of state courts and legislatures in the creation and regulation of nineteenth-century American nonprofit …

This paper explores the origins and effects of occupational licensing regulation in late nineteenth and early twentieth … century America. Was licensing regulation introduced to limit competition in the market for professional services at the …

During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as … enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation based on the idea that justice can be subverted with sufficient expenditure … environment of significant inequality of wealth and political power. The switch to regulation can then be seen as an efficient …

This paper is a comparative study of the responses to the 1995 Wharton School survey of derivative usage among US non … derivative usage is most common, followed closely by interest rate derivatives, with commodity derivatives a distant third. In … choice of instruments, and the influence of their market view when taking derivative positions. These differences appear to …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …