This paper critiques The Regulation of Labor, an empirical study recently published by Juan C. Botero, Simeon Djankov …, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The Regulation of … associated with the lowest levels of regulation. While these findings are suggestive and help deepen the case for regulatory …

The future of Germanys electricity regulation is still an open question. This paper deals with alternative …

offshore methane hydrates. Prior to the discussions on public and private regulation, the study provides an introduction to … advantages of public regulation to govern the risks of accidents are presented. Third, a discussion reviews the potential … interactions of public regulation and private rules of civil liability. Fourth, the potential for private parties to advance …

trends in EU law in the last ten to fifteen years, as regards the regulation of network industries and of services of general … (iii) between regulation and competition law. At the same time, the separation between the regulatory authority and the …

I test theories of regulation using comprehensive datasets on regulatory changes, equity returns, and firm fundamentals …. I find that firms in industries subject to more regulation earn significantly higher returns than firms in deregulated …

Recent tobacco control regulation in North America and Western Europe has had a salutary effect, even if smoking … legislation and regulation from all parts of the world in each of these spheres, and evaluates their effectiveness. The …