business cycle conditions at the time of deregulation significantly affect adjustment. A reduction of firing costs entails …

an entry deregulation reform in China that eliminated such requirements. We exploit city–month variation in reform … implementation and employ a large nationwide administrative dataset of firm registrations, finding that the deregulation strongly … find that the deregulation exerts a pro-competitive effect by encouraging entry of small and medium-sized firms, private …

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics … and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource … regressions reveal that the distributional effects of deregulation on firm size are significantly non-linear. The size …

to understand variations within countries and enable more meaningful cross-country comparison. Hospital performance is … the OECD launched the Hospital Performance Project to better understand performance across countries and strengthen … international comparisons. From 2015-2018 the OECD developed a method for measuring hospital level acute myocardial infarction 30 …

conventional surgery in a high-volume French hospital. Consecutive patients eligible for transfemoral TAVR or surgical aortic valve …