The aim of this page, as it states, is to hold lawmakers and regulators accountable for their decisions by providing thoughtful, objective analyses of existing regulatory programs and new regulatory proposals.
Useful resource for finding papers, but only a few of them are available on-line. Mainly concerned with the US perspective.
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (@@@)
Series de la Cepal are series of monographs, generally with limited circulation, containing studies carried out in the context of projects, meetings and seminars organized by ECLAC. The Series also include research in progress that will subsequently be published in books or official documents of the ECLAC secretariat.
ECLAC is doing very interesting work on regulation in Latin America, especially in the water industry. Regrettably, the availability of on-line sources is limited.
"This page is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
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The SSRN Electronic Library consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 11,000 scholarly working papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing 2,500 downloadable full text documents".
A very good page mainly devoted to economic regulation. It has a very useful service that delivers the most recent publications in many fields by email.
National Center for Policy Analysis - Regulatory Issues (USA) (@@)
Some papers are available.
Center for the Study of American Business (USA) (@@@@)
Click on the "regulation" section in the publications library.
Town Hall's Regulation Library (USA)
Competitive Enterprise Institute (USA)
The Heritage Foundation (USA)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Inter-American Development Bank (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo) (@)
An interesting site, but scarcely any publications on-line.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (@@@@@)
A very useful site, with many available resources.
Privatization Link
This link is an investment promotion service provided by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency of the World Bank Group.
"PrivatizationLink is a service of the World Bank Group to deliver information on privatization in developing countries and transition economies to privatization professionals worldwide."
Despite this site does not have papers online it is an up-to-date resource of the trend in the privatisation of public utilities.
CATO Institute (USA) (@@@@@)
A very interesting site. Contains the on-line version of The Cato Review of Business and Government Regulation, and Policy Analysis amongst other sources.
Committee for Economic Development (USA)
World Bank (@@@@@)
A very good place to find leading works in the field.
The most useful articles are not available on-line.
Lettre de la Regulation (France) (@@@@@)
A very good publication, strongly theoretical. In French.
Note: In France, "regulation" was adopted as a name of an specific economic theory (regulation theory). Nonetheless, in some approachs the "regulation theory" has its own rationale for the intervention in the economy.
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