regulation data are integrated with the annual energy, transport and communication regulation (ETCR) indicator and what sector …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …

on the efficiency of resource allocation. Our results suggest that there is an economically and statistically robust … efficiency (i.e. a lower correspondence between a firm’s size and its productivity level). By contrast, financial market under …

Product Market Regulation indicator, housing market regulations and policies, Doing Business indicators and the quality of … institutions such as the rule of law indicator or the efficiency of the legal system). Results suggest that for instance, when more … stringent product market regulation hurts more in more open economies. Better institutions amplify the positive effect of R …

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs’ Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

of the economy and greater financial stability should be achieved by sound regulation, ensuring high capital requirements … should be collected on a wider set of financial institutions than currently done and macroprudential regulation should be …