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In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …
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and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …
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results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …
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years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …
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We provide causal evidence that regulatory shocks associated with drug safety label changes lead to aggregate demand declines of 16.9 percent within two years of a relabeling event. After accounting for all plausible substitution patterns by physicians along with competitor actions, aggregate...
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quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …
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Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers...
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not only on its effectiveness as a sanitary measure but also on how the costs of the regulation are distributed …
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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 …
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. However, the manager can use her...
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