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作者:Davidson, Jamie S.
作者单位:National University of Singapore
摘要:This article uses the case study of Indonesian governments' attempts to construct a 1,000 kilometer toll road through the densest parts of Java to shed light on how governments with a checkered past of enforcing contracts and protecting private property rights go about establishing the requisite regulatory framework to attract private investment for infrastructure. While regulatory reform has taken place in Indonesia, vested interests and power will keep the country's political economy from ta...
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作者:Marx, Axel; Cuypers, Dieter
作者单位:KU Leuven; VITO; University of Antwerp
摘要:Sustainable forest management is a key challenge for local and global governance. The Forest Stewardship Council has emerged as one of the solutions to global forest deterioration and is generally regarded as the prime example of certification as a global governance tool. This article examines the macro-effectiveness of certification on halting deforestation and examines the relationship between certification and governance institutions. The article finds that the macro-effectiveness of certif...
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作者:Gilad, Sharon
作者单位:Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要:Regulators in different countries and domains experiment with regulatory tools that allow organizations to adapt regulation to their individual circumstances, while holding them accountable for their self-regulation systems. Several labels have been coined for this type of regulation, including systems-based regulation, enforced self-regulation, management-based regulation, principles-based regulation, and meta-regulation. In this article, these forms of regulatory governance are classified as...
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作者:Carpenter, Daniel; Grimmer, Justin; Lomazoff, Eric
作者单位:Harvard University; Stanford University
摘要:Safety regulation - in the form of pre-market approval, licensure, screening, and product entry limitations - governs numerous market realms, including consumer finance. In this article, we ask whether the effects of safety regulation go beyond safety and affect consumers' beliefs about the distribution of products they can use. We model approval regulation, where a government regulator must approve the market entry of a product based upon observable, unbiased, and non-anticipable experiments....
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作者:Cole, Benjamin M.; Banerjee, Preeta M.
作者单位:Fordham University; Brandeis University
摘要:Policymakers globally have debated (and often implemented) the idea of consolidating numerous financial regulatory supervisory entities into one unitary entity. This article uses a computational model to explore the effect such a decision would have on supervisory performance. Using insights from organizational scholarship on consensus-making among individuals within organizations, the simulation suggests that under most conditions a unitary supervisory entity yields lower performance than sma...