corrective taxation and to regulation. …

basic and ubiquitous features of regulation as actually implemented throughout the world has received little theoretical … because exemption induces additional harmful activity to be channeled their way. This article analyzes optimal regulation with … regulation, which illustrates the contrast with the mechanism design approach that analyzes the optimal use of instruments of a …

-enforceable private contracts (regulation). However, because this mechanism is costly, its effectiveness depends on the aggregate … institutions and regulation is delayed for the later stages. At this point of time, the hold-up problem is solved and this spurs …

We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …