This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women …'s economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

disparities across 167 economies around the world. This is achieved by constructing a simple measure of legal gender disparities …

data have explanatory power for the quality of business regulation. The paper finds the regulatory environment to be most …

. 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 …

emerging institutional innovations in globalized regulation. The framework highlights two dimensions of effectiveness -- the … for three distinctive approaches to globalized regulation: i) Government-centric approaches, including treaties, extra …-territorial regulation and government networks -- seven examples are assessed in the paper. ii) Civil regulation, including both joint …

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …