single market in the European Union is impeded by absent or imperfect regulation conducted at the national level, which fails …

To evaluate the impact of regulation on the innovativeness of firms, this study considers the unusual case of electric … its regulation was relatively limited until 1975, after which time Texas legislators imposed rate-of-return regulation … of technological change both before and after the imposition of rate-of-return regulation. The findings indicate that …

regulations cost the consumer? Costs arise from three sources: workplace safety regulation, environmental regulation, and consumer … safety regulation. In this paper, we examine each area in turn, focusing on how the cost of regulations impacts the average …

copy some of their techniques.This paper - a product of Governance, Regulation, and Finance, World Bank Institute - is part … of a larger effort in the institute to increase understanding of infrastructure regulation …

This paper studies the implications that arise when regulation imposes constraints on firms' decisions about their … regulation steered firms to own-account carriage. Using the estimated model and data on commercial vehicle movements, I quantify … the effects of the regulation through counterfactual. I find that in the absence of the regulation, the total commercial …

Performance-based regulation (PBR) is influenced by the Bayesian and non-Bayesian incentive mechanisms. While Bayesian … incentives require long-term adjustments based on rate-of-return regulation with a used and useful criterion …

and regulation schemes on retail electricity prices. We find significantly higher prices in markets with vertically …

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces …