We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security … generous social security systems. Socialist and French legal origin countries have sharply higher levels of labor regulation …. Heavier regulation of labor is associated with a larger unofficial economy, lower labor force participation, and higher …

differences in financial development, contracting costs or regulation. We find cross-country correlations between vertical …

We use two micro data sets that collect harmonized data across countries to investigate the effects of regulation on … regulation we use, we always find a detrimental effect of regulation on entrepreneurship. While women are overall less likely to … opportunity but because they could not find better work. Moreover, regulation dampens the effects of self-assessed business skills …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …

After outlining characteristics of Japan's distribution sector, a comprehensive international comparison of it to those …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in … several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of regulation in the …

. Our central finding is that the US dollar scores (by a wide margin) as the world's dominant anchor currency and, by some …

) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. Firm-level data show that post-GFC, emerging market …