Bassanini, Andrea (contributor); Nunziata, Luca (contributor) - 2008
-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference … in industries where the policy is likely to be binding than in other industries. The advantage of this approach is that … present a large battery of robustness checks, including dealing with endogeneity issues, that suggest that our finding is …