Specialization and regulation: the rise of professionals and the emergence of occupational licensing regulation
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 618-620
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 459-489, 2006
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In: The journal of economic history, Band 64, Heft 2
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 63, Heft 4, S. 1103-1130
ISSN: 1471-6372
Why did state governments begin to regulate the food industry in the late nineteenth century? One possible explanation is that pure food regulation was the result of rent seeking on the part of traditional food producers who wanted to limit the availability of new substitutes. Another potential hypothesis is that regulation was desired because it helped solve an asymmetric information problem in the market for food products. I find the evidence to be more consistent with the latter hypothesis.
In: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Vol. 22, No. 2, Fall 2006
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In: Public choice, Band 192, Heft 1-2, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1573-7101
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In: Economic Inquiry, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 680-697
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In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 121-146
ISSN: 1527-8034
A growing empirical literature links political centralization with urban development. In this paper we present evidence showing how different patterns of political centralization in the United States and Canada affected urban agglomeration during the twentieth century, with a specific focus on the impact on the population of capital cities. Using data on Canadian and US cities and metropolitan areas, we find that the national capital effect on population grew over time in both countries but more so in the United States whereas the subnational (i.e., provincial or state) capital effect rose much more significantly in Canada than in the United States, controlling for other factors like geography and climate. We argue that these patterns in the national and subnational capital city effects reflect different trends in federalism in the two countries. In the United States, the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian tradition of states' rights and localism was transformed into a more nationally centralized form of federalism during the Progressive Era, but states and localities continued to retain significant autonomy. In Canada, federalism came to favor provincial rights but not localism. We believe that that these diverging trends were driven by institutional differences that gave the various levels of governments in Canada and the United States different access to revenue sources.
In: The journal of economic history, Band 65, Heft 3
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Regulation & governance, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 405-424
ISSN: 1748-5991
AbstractThis paper investigates the effects of revolving door regulations – laws that restrict the post‐government employment opportunities of public sector workers – on the characteristics of state public utility commissioners. We find that commissioners from states with revolving door regulations have less expertise, serve shorter terms, and are less likely to be subsequently employed by the private sector, compared with their counterparts from states without revolving door laws. These findings suggest that revolving door regulations may have costly unintended consequences.
In: NBER Working Paper No. w15140
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