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Public Procurement Regulation and Road Quality

Djankov, Simeon - 2017

Public procurement regulation is an important instrument for using public resources efficiently and ensuring quality … globally. Using new data, this study documents public procurement regulation and related processes in 142 economies. Scores for …

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SEC Filings, Regulatory Deadlines, and Capital Market Consequences

Bartov, Eli - 2017

Timely disclosure of financial statement information is a critical requirement for firms and well-functioning capital markets. Yet, every quarter or year, a non-trivial number of firms are late in filing their financial statements. This paper identifies and probes various capital market...

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An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America : Enablers, Promoters, and Preventers

Rojas-Suarez, Liliana - 2017

This paper constructs an index of regulatory quality for improving financial inclusion for the purpose of assessing and comparing the quality of rules and regulations in a sample of eight Latin American countries. The index comprises 11 regulatory practices classified into three categories:...

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Environmental Health Regulation in the Trump Era : How President Trump’s 2-for-1 Regulatory Plan Impacts Environmental Regulation

Geltman, Elizabeth - 2017

fulfillment of his campaign promise to reduce the burden of federal regulation on American businesses by requiring agencies to …'s deregulatory initiative signaling the civil war over the efficacy of federal regulation ignited during the 2016 election cycle … Trump regulatory reform agenda impacts environmental regulation. The paper begins with an overview of the Trump regulatory …

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Cross-Border Effects of Regulatory Spillovers : Evidence from Mexico

Tripathy, Jagdish - 2017

I study the spillover of a macroprudential regulation in Spain to the Mexican financial system via Mexican subsidiaries …

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Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time : Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet

Sanders, Nicholas - 2017

Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through mandated vehicle inspections and repairs. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. To test for a...

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Market Reforms at the Zero Lower Bound

Cacciatore, Matteo - 2017

This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing---such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country model with endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal...

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Organizational and Economic Mechanism of State Regulation of Higher Education System in Ukraine

Kurmaiev, Petro - 2017

regulation in Ukraine.Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Different aspects of the education system functioning are ….Uninvestigated parts of general matters defining. However, the problems related to the study of the practical aspects of state regulation … ground scientific approaches to the formation of organizational and economic mechanism of higher education system regulation …

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Firms' Compliance with Complex Regulations

Mendoza, Juan - 2017

regulatory complexity is perceived as fair (i.e., the perception that the extensive regulation generates unnecessary difficulties … the regulation, and that this knowledge in turn would improve their ability to comply. In line with our hypothesis, the …

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The Missing Rung : Challenging Regulatory Barriers to Property Acquisition

Serkin, Christopher - 2017

This Essay was prepared for the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference honoring Hernando de Soto. It examines his work on the regulatory barriers in developing countries that can prevent large segments of the population from accessing formal property rights. Traditionally, a property right is...

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