“pie” due to the activity of the interest groups lead to a certain rigidity in society, a lack of reforms and a lack of …

, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use a sample of 141 countries over the period 2003-2013 to investigate … the link between the age of politicians and regulatory reforms. We created an ad hoc database for the age of politicians … office can be a driving force that is more or less likely to bring about regulatory reforms. Our results suggest that the age …

needed reforms resulted in obvious weaknesses not being corrected. This has prevented these two systems from delivering the …

needed reforms resulted in obvious weaknesses not being corrected. This has prevented these two systems from delivering the …

Some regulatory reforms do not change just a specific signal that can be represented by a quantitative continuous … social welfare of changing a policy signal? However, reforms such as privatization, unbundling or liberalization of network … of such reforms to use categorical variables, often in polytomous form, for instance describing unbundling steps …

whether the recovery observed was due to the successful adoption of structural reforms in labour and product markets or … the Irish recovery is mostly export-driven with structural reforms playing a very minor role in stimulating growth in the …

economic recession alongside labor market reforms raised the inflow rate to and decreased the outflow rate from unemployment in … the early crisis years. The gradual normalization of economic conditions and the adoption of further structural reforms …

Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make … a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the … government, minority government and legislature-seat instability). Second, we define reforms as distinct changes in the quality …

Since the early 1980s a wave of liberalizing reforms has swept over the world. While the stated motivation for these … reforms has usually been to increase economic efficiency, some critics have instead inferred ulterior motives and a desire to … enrich certain (already rich) people at the expense of others. This critique, coupled with the claim that many of the reforms …