, trafficking victims constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated prostitution market. We ask if regulation can … model that does. Political support for regulation hinges on the level of gender income inequality. …

Certain markets are illicit because part of the supply is coerced, but little is known about the optimal regulation of … such markets. We model a prostitution market with voluntary and coerced prostitutes and ask what regulation can restore the … decriminalizing prostitution and provide guidance for empirical work on prostitution regulation …

basic and ubiquitous features of regulation as actually implemented throughout the world has received little theoretical … because exemption induces additional harmful activity to be channeled their way. This article analyzes optimal regulation with … regulation, which illustrates the contrast with the mechanism design approach that analyzes the optimal use of instruments of a …

corrective taxation and to regulation. …