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Dodging the Grabbing Hand : The Determinants of Unofficial Activity in 69 Countries

Friedman, Eric; Johnson, Simon; Kaufmann, Daniel; … - 2001

Across 69 countries, higher tax rates are associated with less unofficial activity as a percent of GDP but corruption is associated with more unofficial activity. Entrepreneurs go underground not to avoid official taxes but to reduce the burden of bureaucracy and corruption. Dodging the Grabbing...

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Corruption, Public Finances, and the Unofficial Economy

Johnson, Simon; Kaufmann, Daniel; Zoido, Pablo - 2004

rates alone. This paper - a product of the Governance, Regulation, and Finance Group, World Bank Institute - is part of a …

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Antitrust in Wonderland : Regulating Markets of Innovation

Woan, Sunny - 2014

This article examines the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law, critiquing the government's approach and proposing amendments to current standards. In particular, this article focuses on the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission's treatment of innovation...

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Allocating Lawmaking Powers : Self-Regulation vs. Government Regulation

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2007

Self-regulation is common, but comparative analysis of self-regulation and government regulation is rare. This paper … identifies conditions determining whether regulation is delegated or centralized, analyzing the welfare implications of … government-producer bargaining. Self-regulation's relative efficiency increases with uncertainty over institutional …

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An Exploration of the European Dimension of the Commercial Agents Regulations

Tosato, Andrea - 2015

In 1986, the European Communities enacted Directive 86/653/EEC on self-employed commercial agents. In the UK, this was implemented into national law in the Commercial Agents Regulations 1993. Over the past 20 years, considerable scholarship has been devoted to commercial agents and a sizeable...

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Stranded Costs

Sidak, J. Gregory; Baumol, William J. - 2009

Through the end of the twentieth century, the most critical regulatory issue facing electric utilities was stranded costs, which can be defined as those costs that the utilities were permitted to recover through their rates but whose recovery may have been impeded or prevented by the advent of...

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Census of Regulatory Restrictions

Ampaabeng, Samuel Kofi; McLaughlin, Patrick A.; Powers, … - 2022

Ever since its introduction in 2012, RegData—the Mercatus Center’s database for quantifying federal regulation …

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Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency : The U.S. Electric Utility Sector

Delmas, Magali A.; Tokat, Yesim - 2003

This paper is an empirical assessment of the comparative efficiency of governance structures in an environment marked by high uncertainty. We analyze the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric utilities in the United States. We argue that there are...

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Towards a Legal Theory of Finance

Pistor, Katharina - 2012

This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...

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Nudges.gov : Behavioral Economics and Regulation

Sunstein, Cass R. - 2013

Behavioral economics is influencing regulatory initiatives in many nations, including the United States and the United Kingdom. The role of behavioral economics is likely to increase in the next generation, especially in light of the growing interest in low-cost, choice-preserving regulatory...

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