and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper … risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition …

if the permissible types of contracts are limited by regulation resembling the separation of investment and commercial …

This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement …

Governments that levy predatory regulation and provide few weak legal institutions draw businesses into the unofficial …, we find that retail shops face very high levels of predatory regulation and have frequent contacts with private … protection rackets. In addition, we show that higher levels of regulation are associated with weaker legal institutions and a …