We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of … some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to … parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases total discounted project expenditure over a regime of no regulation …

. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …

efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets …

European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …

entry (above finance, taxes and regulation) and (b) while bribes' unavoidability is positively related to firm performance …