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Regulatory Competition (regulatory + competition)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting57%

Selected Abstracts

THE IMPACT OF REGULATORY COMPETITION ON THE INVESTMENT OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES IN NEW ZEALAND

ECONOMIC PAPERS: A JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND POLICY, Issue 2 2005
Malcolm Abbott
In this paper the regulatory differences between Australia and New Zealand in higher education are examined to determine if they have encouraged the entry of Australian universities into the New Zealand education market. Some general observations are also made about the nature of regulatory competition and the manner in which it influences the development of the international education export industry. [source]

Legal Diversity and Regulatory Competition: Which Model for Europe?

EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL, Issue 4 2006
Simon Deakin
In the European context, harmonisation of corporate and labour law, contrary to its critics, has been a force for the preservation of diversity, and of an approach to regulatory interaction based on mutual learning between nation states. It is thus paradoxical, and arguably antithetical to the goal of European integration, that this approach is in danger of being undermined by attempts, following the Centros case, to introduce a Delaware-type form of inter-jurisdictional competition into European company law. [source]

Fiscal and Regulatory Competition: Theory and Evidence

PERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 4 2002
Wallace E. Oates
This paper reviews first the theoretical literature and then the empirical studies of interjurisdictional competition among governments. Of central interest is the normative question of whether fiscal and regulatory competition promotes a more efficient functioning of the public sector or whether it is the source of distortions in the public and private sectors. This is a contentious issue; both the theoretical and empirical literature, while providing some rich insights into the potential impact of such competition, do not give us an unambiguous answer to the general normative question. The concluding section offers the author's thoughts on all this with a leaning towards the view that such competition is, on balance, efficiency,enhancing. [source]

Regulatory Competition and Accountability: Comparing Universal Service in Telecommunications in Australia and Taiwan,

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2009
Chen-Dong Tso
The recent trend of transforming regulatory bureaus into independent agencies has raised concerns over accountability once the regulator is cut loose from political control. There is also concern that the promotion of public values may be at risk when the regulatory function is outsourced to a mission-limited independent agency. To find possible solutions to these problems, this study compares the provision of telecommunications universal service in Australia with that in Taiwan to determine how different accountability designs lead to different means of ensuring universal service provision. Following a detailed investigation, this article finds that the consumer sovereignty model used in Australia performs better than the fiduciary trusteeship model in Taiwan in constraining the capture of the regulator by the dominant carrier. Overall, the author argues that, as a social goal, ensuring universal service should rely on both a politically mandated institution and competing regulatory agencies that accommodate different value groups so that a line is drawn between the social and commercial spheres. [source]

THE IMPACT OF REGULATORY COMPETITION ON THE INVESTMENT OF AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES IN NEW ZEALAND

ECONOMIC PAPERS: A JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMICS AND POLICY, Issue 2 2005
Malcolm Abbott
In this paper the regulatory differences between Australia and New Zealand in higher education are examined to determine if they have encouraged the entry of Australian universities into the New Zealand education market. Some general observations are also made about the nature of regulatory competition and the manner in which it influences the development of the international education export industry. [source]

Regulierungswettbewerb im Deutschen Reich (1871,1914): Welche Erfahrungen sind für die Europäische Union relevant?

PERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 1 2004
Gerold Ambrosius
The past experiences of economically and politically integrated areas are neglected in this discussion. On the basis of an evolutionary concept of institutional competition this paper outlines how regulatory competition between the ,Bundesstaaten' of the German Empire of 1871 , in its political structure comparable with the European Union , and between the Empire and foreign countries performed up to First World War. The special case study deals with the regulation of food of wine, beer and meat, but the article tries to work out general hypotheses about institutional competition between different jurisdictions. Especially the limits of regulatory competition are brought out. [source]

Fiscal and Regulatory Competition: Theory and Evidence

PERSPEKTIVEN DER WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK, Issue 4 2002
Wallace E. Oates
This paper reviews first the theoretical literature and then the empirical studies of interjurisdictional competition among governments. Of central interest is the normative question of whether fiscal and regulatory competition promotes a more efficient functioning of the public sector or whether it is the source of distortions in the public and private sectors. This is a contentious issue; both the theoretical and empirical literature, while providing some rich insights into the potential impact of such competition, do not give us an unambiguous answer to the general normative question. The concluding section offers the author's thoughts on all this with a leaning towards the view that such competition is, on balance, efficiency,enhancing. [source]