Studies show that the impact of financial markets on innovation is mixed. This paper
examines whether financial development can help explain the pace of innovation in 68 …

Abstract Federal Sentencing Guidelines Governing Organizations purport to constrain
judicial discretion over corporate criminal penalties. We investigate the effect on courts' …

This quantitative study investigates the effect of certificate-of-need (CON) regulation on the
quality of care in the nursing home industry. It uses county-level demographic data from the …

Although 19th century American labor markets were unencumbered by regulatory
legislation, labor market institutions played an active role determining labor market …

This study of the impact of economic freedom, regulatory quality and the relative burden of
taxation on the level of per capita real income/GDP among OECD nations over the period …

Re‐estimates the famous study by Stigler and Friedland (1962) thatexamines the impact of
regulation on the price of electricity. Employstime‐series data in the analysis, in light of …

Was the adoption of state utility regulation the result of a negative-sum competition among
special interest groups vying for the monopoly rents created by regulation or a positive-sum …

In the last two decades, more than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform
process in their power industries and billions of dollars have been spent on liberalizing …

This article provides empirical evidence on ex ante and ex post indicators of regulatory
quality and the relationship between those indicators and market performance in liberalised …

This study empirically investigates three hypotheses. The first is that higher levels of
economic freedom in an economy promote a higher growth rate of economic activity and …