Private certification as a means of risk regulation and quality assurance offers advantages over government regulation … institutional advantages over government regulation. Critics of private certification question its legitimacy, asserting that … private regulation is less participatory, transparent, and accountable than government regulation. The article responds to …

The objective of this study is to map the landscape of transnational private regulation (TPR) in professional services …. Transnational private regulation in professional services examines the emerging body of rules created by private actors in a manner …

‘private interest approach to regulation’. The exercise of licensing power seems to primarily serve local officials’ attempts …

antitrust effectiveness and the need for comparative institutional analyses of antitrust that extend beyond matters of … precluding private antitrust enforcement as one salient choice in antitrust design depends on whether antitrust enforcement is … antitrust lawsuits or incentivizes firms to engage in frivolous litigation. Corruption expectedly reduces the effectiveness of …

Private politics are often introduced by market participants in the absence of public regulation. But when is private … politics enough, efficient, or better than administratively costly public regulation? We present a novel framework in which we … can study the interaction between regulation, self-regulation by the firm, and boycotts by the activists in a dynamic game …