in Romania to those of European Union countries, as measured by the OECD indicators of Product Market Regulation. These … that the Product Market Regulation approach measures officially adopted policies and does not capture implementation …. Future reforms should be directed both at improving official regulation and, where policies that favor competition are …

the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing …

Public procurement regulation is an important instrument for using public resources efficiently and ensuring quality … globally. Using new data, this study documents public procurement regulation and related processes in 142 economies. Scores for …

possible cost of compliance with a proposed new regulation, the likely administrative burden of enforcing the regulation, and …-quality regulation, stronger democratic regimes, and less corrupt institutions …

-border syndicated loan market. Lending provided through a foreign subsidiary is subject to subsidiary-country regulation and … stringent bank regulation and supervision consistent with regulatory arbitrage, but that they prefer to originate loans in …

. The authors construct an index that measures the existence of laws and regulation that support mobile banking activity for … laws and regulation in supporting mobile banking. The analysis finds that a supporting regulatory framework is associated …