We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation …

We present new data on the regulation of entry of start-up firms in 85 countries. The data covers the number of … are extremely high in most countries. Countries with heavier regulation of entry have higher corruption and larger … have lighter regulation of entry. The evidence is inconsistent with public interest theories of regulation, but supports …

This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and … level, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, we show that in areas where law enforcement …

health. The results support public choice theory of the nature of regulation and are inconsistent with the predictions of … exogenous variation in regulation generated by the interaction of reform and its institutional determinants, we find a … public interest theory. …