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Good intentions and unintended evil? : clients' punishment in the market for sex services with voluntary and involuntary providers

Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2015

While there is no consensus concerning the legal and moral judgment towards prostitution, there is an overwhelming agreement on the need to fight sexual slavery. The paper shows the effect of clients' punishment in the market for commercial sex (the so called neo-abolitionism or nordic...

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Reform in basic telecommunications and the WTO negotiations : the Asian experience

Low, Patrick; Mattoo, Aaditya - 1998 - Manuscript date: 25 November, 1997

of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as …

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Regulatory Competition and the World Bank’s Doing Business Reports : Taiwan’s Liberalization of the Minimum Capital Requirement for Incorporation as an Example

Tsai, Chang-hsien - 2019

In 2009 Taiwan repealed the minimum capital requirement for incorporation (MCR), owing to the World Bank (WB)'s Doing Business (DB) reports. This article presents regulatory/jurisdictional competition as an analytical framework for convergence towards the liberalization of the MCR, especially in...

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Regulation, awareness, compliance and SME performance in Cameroon's manufacturing and retail sectors

Akinboade, Oludele A.; Kinfack, Emilie - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) 12, pp. 933-950

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the regulation, awareness, compliance and performance of small and …. Originality/value – The number of studies focusing on the relationship between regulation and business performance in Africa is … registered for tax and those in the manufacturing sector see tax regulation as a burden. Those having opinions that regulation is …

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Consumer inference and the regulation of consumer information

Schmeiser, Steven - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 37 (2014) C, pp. 192-200

about the importance of an attribute through the intensive margin of regulation. The model has empirical predictions that … distinguish it from traditional models of mandatory disclosure. I also examine inferential mistakes that can lead to over or under-regulation …

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Age of politicians and Regulatory Reform

Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Kabange, Martin Mulunda - 2016

This article discusses the relationship between the identity of the rulers of the executive and reform. Thus, we enrich the literature on the determinants of reform and the result of the executive. This is a new and very important literature, as these are the reforms that allow progress. We use...

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Democratic institutions and regulatory reforms

Amin, Mohammad; Djankov, Simeon - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 839-854

We use a sample of 144 countries over the period 2003–2013 to investigate the link between democratic institutions and regulatory reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reform, as politicians embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. On the other hand, authoritarian regimes may not...

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Regulation, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Desai, Sameeksha; Eklund, Johan E. - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

relationship between regulation, firm dynamics and entrepreneurship. We identify some foundational considerations relevant to this …

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Does occupational deregulation affect in-company vocational training? – Evidence from the 2004 Reform of the German Trade and Crafts Code

Runst, Petrik; Thomä, Jörg - 2018

The European Commission actively evaluates occupational entry restrictions in all member states. This has attracted a growing interest among scholars of the German crafts sector as it is governed by an idiosyncratic national set of rules. We estimate the effects of the deregulation of the German...

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Does regulation promote sustainable development outcomes? Empirical evidence from the indian electricity sector

Sarangi, Gopal K.; Mishra, Arabinda; Taghizadeh-Hesary, … - 2019

effect of electricity sector regulation on sustainable sector outcomes. The paper in this context empirically examines … whether electricity sector regulation influences the sectoral outcomes at the state level. For analytical purposes, the … present study considers a sample of 12 Indian states (provinces). While it captures electricity sector regulation by …

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