The World Bank Group's Doing Business Indicators (DBIs) have become an important guide and benchmark for investment … climate reform. This article discusses the role of the DBIs in the reform process and informs this discussion with an … DBI ranking to enhance the visibility of a government's general reform efforts; or they can be aimed at maximizing the …

This paper studies the effects of regulation on economic growth and the relative size of the informal sector in a large … regulation affects macroeconomic performance and economic growth in particular. The paper concludes that a heavier regulatory …

support to this view. We find that in countries with less stringent job market regulation the long-run impact of Unemployment … faster in countries with looser job-market regulation, compared with countries with stricter regulation. These findings have …

regime to include art dealers has been attributed to the failure of regulation and the vulnerabilities inherent in the market … to laundering. This paper considers vulnerabilities to money laundering and examines the types of regulation that apply …

In a sample of sixty less developed countries, the present study observes that the regulation of competition in the … formation. The regulation of competition in the banking sector also has a significant positive effect on the growth of fixed …-socialist countries no such favourable effect can be observed. Rather the effect of each type of regulation on almost each growth rate is …

regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for … ; regulation …

regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …

Using objective measures of business regulation in 135 countries, we establish that countries with better regulations …