Bernholz / Vaubel Political Competition and Economic Regulation

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-134-08655-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

Organized, readable, technically sound and comprehensive from both theoretical and empirical standpoints, this book summarizes a vast amount of institutional, historical and descriptive detail.

Using case studies from the US, Canada, Germany and Switzerland as well as the European Union and the global economy, this is the first book of its kind to examine historical evidence on how competition among states – or the lack of it – affects regulation, especially labour market regulation.

Edited by internationally respected scholars of economics and containing contributions from eminent economists, this book reveals important implications as to whether European political integration leads to more regulation and whether globalization restrains regulation. It will be of great interest to both economists and students engaged with political economy, public choice and regulation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernholz, Peter

Vaubel, Roland

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Effect of Interjurisdictional Competition on Regulation: Theory and Overview 2. Politico-economic Causes of Labour Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?) and Interjurisdictional Competition 3. Interjurisdictional Competition in Regulation: Evidence for Canada at the Provincial Level 4. Labour Market Regulation in the European Union: Causes and Consequences 5. Was there Regulatory Competition in Early Modern Germany? 6. Regulatory Competition and Federalism in Switzerland: Diffusion by Horizontal and Vertical Interaction 7. The Drivers of Deregulation in the Era of Globalization