, enacting regulation to ensure household consumer protection and security of supply. …

This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in … industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields … deregulation and a descriptive view at the correlations, a panel analysis for OECD countries for the period 1975 to 2001 is …

characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries. Thus, the paper extends the literature which has so far … mostly focused on performance of pension fund industries facing no or limited regulation. We find that the performance of … fund management ; investment and performance regulation ; performance measurement ; Central European stock markets …

following the deregulation of the industry in January 2013. Applying both parametric and semi-parametric survival models, we …

market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only pro table …

We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January …