The regulation of financial markets has for years been the domain of lawyers, legislators, and lobbyists. In this …

markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how … the topics examined by this literature--especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation …

We study the distortions to industrial organization caused by entry regulation. We take advantage of heterogeneity … affected by country-level entry regulation. In industries with high natural entry barriers, entry regulation has little impact …, countries with high entry regulation have relatively few, large firms. We find no relation between natural entry barriers and …