their responsible workers, and in turn engage in CSR through self-regulation, provided that regulatory oversight is poor … enough - and hence regulation is loose enough - to make self-regulation worthwhile. The key prediction of the model is a …

We study a model in which corporate social responsibility (CSR) arises as a response to inefficient regulation. In our … attenuated through government regulation, which is set endogenously and may or may not be socially optimal. Governments may … choose suboptimal levels of regulation if they face lobbying pressure from companies. Companies can, in turn, hire socially …

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

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

not only on its effectiveness as a sanitary measure but also on how the costs of the regulation are distributed …

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 …

enabling discovery for nanotechnology. Nanotech publishing and patenting has grown phenomenally. Over half of nanotech authors … nanotechnology where and when scientists are publishing breakthrough academic articles. A high average education level is also … similar process appears to have started in nanotechnology …