Disruptive innovation creates increasing regulatory challenges. Venture capital’s assessment of innovative products, businesses, and initiatives generates highly relevant institution -- and industry -- specific decentralized information on innovation trends. Using a dataset comprising over...

Each year in the United States, pervasive inequities in health-care access and health outcomes contribute to tens of thousands of excess deaths among communities of color and other historically marginalized and vulnerable populations. Tragically, even that number may be a conservative estimate....

The regulation of defence strategies deployed in Canadian mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions was the subject of considerable analysis and discussion on the part of regulatory authorities and policy makers from 2013 to 2017. This article reviews developments during and after this...

Electric vehicles (EV) and other so-called low emission vehicles (LEV) are promoted as means to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. Economists routinely assess the corresponding saving in emissions by considering that EV emit only “in the power plant”, based on the technological features of the...

This technical research note/abstract provides a data matrix depicting the relationship between regulatory compliance and program quality. The data clearly demonstrate the regulatory compliance theory of diminishing returns which depicts the ceiling or plateau effect in this relationship between...

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated ongoing developments in decision-making, which bring the notion of risk and the agencies responsible for its assessment and management at the forefront of the government agenda. The current centrality of risk regulation is dictated by the commitment by...

There has been a shift from tentative to coming of age in the regulatory stand on addressing competition and consumer protection issues arising from the power wielded by platform ecosystems. This is a positive development. Drawing upon the work of multi-lateral organisations and contemporary...

The European Union has erected a significant new barrier to foreign competitors that seek to compete in EU Member State public procurements. In the European Union there are uniform rules (known as “State aid” rules) on subsidies for all Member States, which are intended to ensure that...

There has been a renewed interest in the adoption of an international instrument on copyright and educational uses at the World Intellectual Property Organization since the COVID-19 pandemic which necessitated an unprecedented large-scale switch to digital education in many countries and brought...

A growing literature has examined the benefits and costs of implementing new disclosure regulations. However, little is known about the consequences when regulators fail to take action. Using IFRS adoption in 2005 as the setting, we examine the costs of regulatory inactions among non-adopting...