limit or no reform. The politician, however, may prefer regulation in the form of a contribution limit, even when a tax is …

amplified by economic integration, which makes factors and producers more mobile and enables them to avoid burdensome regulation … growth equations by using internal instruments to identify a causal relationship between regulation and growth in the … presence of international trade and find evidence that both regulation and trade have a significant positive influence on …

This paper studies the effect of pharmaceutical regulation at the wholesale level, if markets are integrated by …

The European Commission recently put forward a proposal for a regulation to amend and strengthen the 2009 version of … the EU's rules on the regulation of credit rating agencies ("CRA3"). Among other things, Art. 35a of the draft proposal …

economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …