change on pro-social and Nash behavior. We find that government effectiveness and regulatory freedom positively correlate … with pro-social behavior. We find that freedom from each of the following components of regulation; interest rate controls … spillover effects in pro-social behavior when designing government policy …

In a cross-section of countries, government regulation is strongly negatively correlated with social capital. We … document this correlation, and present a model explaining it. In the model, distrust creates public demand for regulation …, while regulation in turn discourages social capital accumulation, leading to multiple equilibria. A key implication of the …

We approach the design of anti-discriminatory labor market regulation as a delegation problem. A private firm (the … their match with firm. A benevolent and unbiased labor market authority (the principal) enacts a hiring regulation (a direct …-revelation mechanism without transfers) in order to reduce the impact of the firm's bias on its hiring behavior. The hiring regulation is …