retail sales in the world and is one of the fastest growing segments in India. Using information on product patents granted …

commercialization, rigor of regulation, and the extent of competition. Meaningful interventions in microfinance will require making …

. The authors construct an index that measures the existence of laws and regulation that support mobile banking activity for … laws and regulation in supporting mobile banking. The analysis finds that a supporting regulatory framework is associated …

data have explanatory power for the quality of business regulation. The paper finds the regulatory environment to be most …

across the world, using a set of newly constructed, comprehensive indicators of regulation in a large number of countries in …Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex … its justification and objectives, regulation can have potentially significant macroeconomic consequences, by helping or …

the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing …

The authors present new data on the regulation of the entry of start-up firms in 85 countries. The data cover the …