results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

Progressive Movement. Cigarette prohibition was special interest regulation, though not of the usual narrow neoclassical genre; it … opponents of cigarette regulation were cigarette smokers and the more organized cigarette lobby. An active Progressive Movement …

In the United States today, the system of financial regulation is complex and fragmented. Responsibility to regulate …

following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …

costs in less-competitive or regulated environments. We test this using a transition from cost-of-service regulation to …

High and increasing hospital prices have led to calls for price regulation. If prices are high because of consolidation …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …