The literature points out that retail trade regulations may have a significant impact on prices, employment and productivity. In the case of Spain, the retail trade sector is subject to a rich set of regional regulations. This paper provides a database and a set of indicators on the main...

This paper studies for the first time the impact on various measures of economic efficiency of regulatory complexity by sector in Spain. We base our analysis on an innovative database that classifies 206,777 regulations by economic sector and region, which highlights the growing volume of...

Spanish Abstract El objetivo de este documento es presentar los resultados de una novedosa base de datos de regulación sectorial a nivel desagregado en España. En concreto, se han construido indicadores objetivos del volumen de nueva regulación para 23 sectores de actividad aprobada por cada...