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But it has plenty of competitors in this area, and existing rules and regulations (such as those covering how food is handled) seem sufficient.
But such a decision would not amount to new regulation – just the application of existing regulations.
It does not need more regulations, but rather a vastly larger canvas for individual freedom and opportunity.
The UK’s rationale for its refusal – that no protocol was included in the treaty exempting the financial sector from certain regulations – suggests that similar outcomes can be expected in future negotiations.
Like all markets, the EU’s Single Market is a political construct that relies on common rules, regulations, and conventions for stability and reliability.
After the sub-prime mortgage crisis, politicians alleged that the market was short-sighted and irrational, and rushed to propose new regulations.
This question has long divided economists along a right-left axis, at least since University of Chicago economists George Stigler and Milton Friedman argued that many, if not most, regulations were motivated by rent-seeking among bureaucrats and business incumbents.
Moreover, Doing Business measures the burden of compliance with regulations, not their effectiveness.
By making visible some government inefficiencies, the report has galvanized pressure to streamline procedures, with many countries adopting policies to reduce the burden that their regulations place on their citizens.
As competition for high-profile international listings among exchanges heats up, the temptation to water down standards and regulations for dual listings is becoming stronger.
Moreover, he would repeal what he could of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms; gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; cut alternative-energy subsidies and environmental regulations; and slash any other regulations that supposedly hurt big business.
Pre-tax prices of new cars can differ up to 70% between member states due in large part to regulations that suppress competition.
One way to address this issue would be to adhere to “use by right” regulations, whereby projects that follow city zoning and land-use codes receive minimal review.
And terrorist attacks, by their very nature, are intended to provoke irrational backlashes (as evidenced by a recent referendum in Denmark, in which voters unexpectedly rejected a proposal to modify the country’s opt-outs from certain EU home-affairs regulations).
Markets work the way they should only when they operate within a framework of appropriate government regulations; and that framework can be erected only in a democracy that reflects the general interest – not the interests of the 1%.
The incumbent’s advantage in Latin America owes much to the feeble regulations restricting the government’s use of the state apparatus for campaign purposes.
For one, they will likely introduce quantity controls on bank lending, though the effects of such regulations are diminishing because banks and other financial institutions have developed a range of ways to circumvent them.
So, under pressure from their citizens, European leaders began to express concern about what the TTIP was lacking in terms of, say, environmental and sanitary regulations and transparency.
Stronger regulations of antibiotics prescriptions in these countries, like those implemented in Finland several decades ago, could help to mitigate resistance.
In the absence of international competition regulations to prevent predatory pricing and other anti-competitive activities, trade defenses are a second-best option.
The first task should be to eliminate – or, at least, reduce – the thicket of government regulations that is stifling economic dynamism.
Policy reform should aim to promote market transparency, improve risk management, and strengthen effective supervision and regulations.
GENEVA – After a late flurry of additions to the founding membership of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, attention now turns to setting the China-led AIIB’s rules and regulations.
It can easily be evaded by relying on offshore banking centers, some pointed out, as if not all financial regulations face that very same challenge.
When that crisis broke, the IMF quickly committed itself to more than $100 billion in loans to the four countries involved, subject to conditions agreed on with the IMF, conditions on government budgets, monetary policies, banking regulations, and the like, varying somewhat from country to country.
But our regulations go considerably further in all three areas.
African leaders need to root out graft, make the governance of energy utilities – some of which have been centers of corruption and inefficiency – more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.
Cross-border regulations and measures are also needed to ensure that risk-takers bear an appropriately high cost for recklessness.
By distorting incentives through taxes, regulations, and a runaway welfare state, both countries discouraged growth in their most productive sectors.
Among the obstacles to the growth of small firms are labor market regulations, the power of the trade unions, competition laws, a cumbersome bureaucracy, and last, but not least, an imperfect capital market.
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