Is regulation right?

Robert Baldwin, Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein, Bridget M. Hutter and Michael Power

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Abstract: Most of us think it proper to study regulation but it is harder to say how regulation can be carried out properly. Regulators, indeed, seem to be on a hiding to nothing - they are routinely savaged in the press, they are seldom informed that they have got it right and hardly ever told what a balanced or successful regime of regulation would like. It is accordingly worth pausing to consider why regulators have such a rough ride, whether they can ever get it right, what sort of future they can look forward to.

JEL-codes: F3 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 6 pages
Date: 2000-10
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