Regulation

Aggregate Impacts of Command-and-Control Environmental Policy: Evidence from Court-Ordered Mining Bans in India

This project will study the impact of an extreme form of 'command and control' environmental policy.

Research Project
1 Apr 2022

Do Energy Audit Mandates Work? An Empirical Analysis Using 12-Year Firm-Level Panel Data

This project will explore the impacts of compulsory energy audits on firms in Vietnam.

Research Project
1 Apr 2022

Constraints on Firms for Providing Safer Workplaces for Female Workers

This project will study what constraints firms face in developing countries in promoting safety for sexual harassment for existing and potential female workers.

Research Project
1 Apr 2022

Do Marketing Channel Reforms Increase Competition? Evidence from Indian Produce Markets

In this paper Alé Chilet and Itin-Shwartz (2020) study the effectiveness of marketing channel liberalization in increasing competition among traders and prices obtained by farmers for their produce.

Working Paper
1 Dec 2020

Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India

A significant amount of resources is spent every year on the improvement of transportation infrastructure in developing countries.

Journal Article
1 Dec 2019

Does Inducing Informal Firms to Formalize Make Sense? Experimental Evidence from Benin

Efforts to bring informal firms into the formal sector are often based on a view that this will bring benefits to the firms themselves, or at least benefit governments through increasing the tax base.

Journal Article
1 Jan 2018

Interest Rate Caps, Relationship Lending, and Bank Competition: Evidence from Bangladesh

Miyauchi (2017) studies the short and long-term impacts of the interest rate caps on loans for large and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises introduced in 2009 and lifted in 2011 and 2012 in Bangladesh.

Working Paper
10 Nov 2017

Understanding Regulatory Cost and Effectiveness: Evidence from India

Pande and Sudarshan (2017) compile a unique dataset on India’s controversial environmental clearance (EC) process, the system through which large investment projects receive government approval before breaking ground.

Research Note
3 Aug 2017

The Solvable Challenge of Air Pollution in India

More than 660 million Indians breathe air that fails India’s National Air Quality Standards. Research suggests that meeting those standards would increase life expectancy in India by 1 year. Going further and meeting the international benchmarks of the

Conference Paper
12 Jul 2017

Cartel Damages to the Economy: An Assessment for Developing Countries

Competition policy implementation and enforcement, including cartel deterrence and detection, require substantial investments. Therefore, it is important to understand to what extent these investments are compensated in terms of prevented damages to consumers.

Book Chapter
1 Jun 2017

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