markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how … the topics examined by this literature--especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation …

1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …

We study the distortions to industrial organization caused by entry regulation. We take advantage of heterogeneity … affected by country-level entry regulation. In industries with high natural entry barriers, entry regulation has little impact …, countries with high entry regulation have relatively few, large firms. We find no relation between natural entry barriers and …

This paper analyzes the impact of rate regulation on the structure of insurance markets for private passenger … those states which impose the most stringent regulation. The analysis suggests that increased regulatory stringency lowers …

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 …

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 …