these size-contingent regulations can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of regulation through … a world with size-contingent regulations and applies this to France where there are sharp increases in firing costs … 2002 through 2007, we show how this regulation has major effects on the distribution of firm size (a "broken power law …

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our … framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …. With flexible wages, the deadweight loss of the regulation is below 1% of GDP, but when wages are downwardly rigid welfare …

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our … framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to …. With flexible wages, the deadweight loss of the regulation is below 1% of GDP, but when wages are downwardly rigid welfare …

policies, taxation and the regulation of labor markets. Institutions have far-reaching effects on entrepreneurship, and they …

economic rents we are able to develop a more general theory comprising central aspects of research within the fields of …

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk … from others, and because they seek to influence the industry regulation. Properly organized fora establish an open …

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