This dissertation offers insight into the effect of regulation on various aspects of growth and development. Exploiting … groups. In Chapter Two, I find that the dismantling of an Indian business regulation constraining investment leads to an …

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 …

market regulation may adversely affect TFP growth and may thus impair convergence. -- Total factor productivity growth … ; Solow residual ; product and labor market regulation …