regarding the actual intensity of financial regulation in developed countries as well as a robust literature about how to … conducting a theoretically complete analysis of costs and benefits in the area of financial regulation as well as the problems … associated in making international comparisons between the observed levels of the intensity of financial regulation across …

This paper investigates patterns in product market regulation across 34 OECD and 21 non-OECD countries, using an … updated and revised version of the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR). The analysis shows that …

employment, appropriate regulation is needed. …

finds that despite the regulatory difficulties, the Internet is far from being a “regulation-free” space as there are … regulation. Most of them aim at protecting personal data and consumers more generally. In many cases generally applicable laws …

securities regulation that had protected investors and their marketplace since the end of the Great Depression. This essay … author concludes that this reallocation of regulatory responsibility will realign the dual system of securities regulation to …

Exchange Commission to seek legislation to preempt states from concurrent regulation. Currently, the preemption issue is being … judicial, congressional, and executive recognition that has been extended to the states in the field of securities regulation …. After reviewing these sources of support for state regulation, a response is made to the claim that duplication and the …

duplicative coverage argument. The author also questions the argument that capital formation is impeded by merit regulation …, providing evidence that states with reputations for strict merit regulation have not experienced adverse effects on capital … formation. Although he recognizes the utility of the merit regulation debate, the author concludes by acknowledging the positive …