The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or “repugnant”. Not … only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is also heterogeneity across countries at a …

The regulation of many activities depends on whether societies consider them morally controversial or "repugnant". Not … only have regulation and related ethical concerns changed over time, but there is also heterogeneity across countries at a …

theory of incentives and regulation. He died in 2004, but his last book, based on the Caffe' Lecture in Rome, has now been … published (Laffont J-J, Regulation and Development, Cambridge University Press). In this paper I critically discuss this … standard results in the theory of regulation cannot be simply transplanted in the developing countries, and he tries to propose …

of regulation and is almost exclusively based on international cross-section data for the post-1995 period. This paper … labor regulations across countries is replicated using LAMRIG, their explanatory power is much weakened for changes over …