countries with more stringent de jure regulation tend to enforce less. While civil law countries tend to have more stringent de … stringent de jure labor regulations, lower overall labor inspection, and larger differences in effective regulation of bigger …

the formal or the informal sector and government policy on taxation and enforcement, given a level of regulation. A static … to operate in the informal sector. I use cross-country data on taxes, measures of informality, and measures of regulation … OECD countries. I find also that welfare gains from reducing regulation are on average 2.1%. Finally, performing a similar …

methodologies, this paper investigates empirically the determinants of money laundering and its regulation in over 80 countries by … additionally constructs specific money laundering regulation indices based on available information on laws and their mechanisms of … across countries; the results are robust to potential endogeneity of money laundering regulation. The relevance of historical …