Platforms operators act as private regulators to increase usage and maximize profits. Their goals depend on the development of the platform: overcoming the chicken-egg problem early on requires attracting platform participants while quality becomes more important later on. Private regulators...

Unabhängige Vermittler erbringen im Rahmen Ihrer Tätigkeiten wichtige Dienstleistungen fürVersicherungsunternehmen und Versicherungsnehmer. Zum einen soll für Versicherungsnehmerin vielen Bereichen passender Versicherungsschutz besorgt werden (Produktauswahl). Darüber hinauskönnen...

Child labor's effect on academic achievement is estimated, using unique data on 3rd and 4th graders in 9 Latin American countries. Cross-country variation in truancy regulations provides an exogenous shift in the ages of children normally in these grades, providing exogenous variation in...

[...]We focus here on three types of capital ratios—riskweighted,leverage, and gross revenue ratios. For each ratio, weexamine what makes it actually or potentially useful for bankregulation and we ask whether it is indeed significantly relatedto subsequent bank failure. Perhaps not...

Was the London Stock Exchange (LSE) little more than a Dickensian den of speculation, or did itmake a contribution to industrial development in interwar Britain? The interwar stock marketlaboured under problems of weak disclosure, inadequate investor protection and ineffectiveunderwriting. New...

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...