A review on rural electrification programs and projects based on off-grid Photovoltaic (PV)
systems, including Solar Pico Systems (SPS) and Solar Home Systems (SHS) in Developing …

Markets for consumer financial services are growing rapidly in low-and middle-income
countries and are being transformed by digital technologies and platforms. With growth and …

High pollution persists in many developing countries despite strict environmental rules. We
use a field experiment and a structural model to study how plant emission standards are …

Recent research on regulation and governance suggests that a mixture of public and private
interventions is necessary to improve working conditions and environmental standards …

Economic development requires secure contract enforcement and stable property rights.
Normal majority-rule politics, such as bargaining over distributive and monetary policies …

In this paper, I estimate the degree of market power at the bank-level for 84 banking systems
worldwide. Subsequently, I analyze the sources of bank competition, placing emphasis on …

We study the agency costs of delegated public service provision, focusing on the link
between organizational forms and uncertainty at project implementation. We consider a …

• Signal flexibility is introduced to explain signal effectiveness across different receivers and
environmental contexts.• Patents are relatively inflexible signals from equity-based …

This article provides cross-country evidence that variations in bank regulatory policies result
in differences in income distribution. In particular, the overall liberalization of banking …

Economic regulation affects us all, shaping how we access essential services such as water,
energy and transport, as well as how we communicate with one another in the digital world …