We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …

factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …

We study the impact of loan regulation in rural India on child labor with an overlapping-generations model of formal …

outsourcing relationships involving India based vendors and clients in UK, this paper identifies relational risks and the controls …

The present study primarily examines the impact of financial distress (FD) on the dividend policy of 33 banks working … dividend policy under the influence of shareholder activism (SHA). Using the static panel data regression technique, it is … revealed that financial distress is non-linearly associated with the dividend policy of banks in an inverted U-shape. In the …

We present empirical evidence which suggests that a big increase in dividend taxation for UK pension funds in July 1997 … affected the form in which some UK companies chose to make dividend payments, but otherwise had limited effects on both the … level of dividend payments and the level of investment. These findings are consistent with a version of the 'new view' of …