The Italian and European regulatory framework for patents would benefit from further improvements in order to foster …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …

-seeking governments. -- Entrepreneurship ; Regulation ; Innovation ; Market Integration ; Lobbying …

We revisit Maxwell's (1998) analysis to show that MQS regulation has no effects on the high-quality firm's incentive to …

This paper critiques The Regulation of Labor, an empirical study recently published by Juan C. Botero, Simeon Djankov …, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. The Regulation of … Labor extends these authors' comparative research to the realm of employment, collective-relations, and social-security laws …

We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

across firms and hence reduce aggregate productivity. It then considers a case-study of labor laws in France where firms that … have 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms that have less than 50. The size distribution of … developed with a payroll tax of 0.15% that only applies to firm above 50 employees. Removing the regulation improves labor …