Following the 2008 financial crisis, countercyclical regulation emerged as one of the most promising breakthroughs in … years to halting destructive cycles of booms and busts. This new approach to systemic risk posits that financial regulation … and to prick asset bubbles before they burst. If countercyclical regulation is to succeed, however, then policymakers must …

We analyze the influence of rate regulation on insurance demand in an annuity setting. With a unique dataset containing … a natural experiment due to German federal regulation and the E.U. Gender Directive we study the impact of unisex … guarantees within the annuity in unisex contracts than without rate regulation. This behavior contradicts economic intuition. We …

equilibrate in the public interest when that interest is not well-defined. The market for regulation is incomplete; while there is … a limitless demand for regulation the supply of regulation is constrained. The response to market incompleteness has … been threefold; deregulation, self-regulation and whistleblowing. Whistleblowing, in particular, has conferred many …

incidence violates traditional versions of the economic theory of regulation. Organized subgroups should be able to protect … principal reasons, one requiring a refinement of the theory. The first is that under regulation the incentives of both … creation and wealth transfer through regulation requires both political unity and quot;slackquot;, that is, protection from …

Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United … States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality … of services, it also creates entry barriers and reduces competition with important costs for job mobility, earnings and …

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

,000 annual reports. These reports, the so-called "Form 10-Ks," contain a characterization of a company's financial performance … around legal complexity and regulation …