Impact of recent regulations

The Impact of the Hill-burton Regulations

This thesis investigates the effects of a regulation, the Community Service Requirement of the Hill-Burton Act, on a particular hospital. The regulation requires that hospitals which received Federal construction grants or loans (1946 to present) provide uncompensated services to indigents. The effects of the regulation are analyzed at two levels; first, the outcomes of the regulation (the amou...

THE ImPACT OF REgULATIONS IN IRELAND

Regulations can have a negative impact on economic behaviour and productivity. The challenge for policymakers is to balance estimated costs with the potential benefits of regulations. One of the key issues is to identify the areas which have the most significant impact on business. This chapter reports new research on the issue of the regulatory burden in Ireland, and identifies some potential ...

The impact of pesticide regulations on suicide in Sri Lanka.

BACKGROUND Between 1950 and 1995 suicide rates in Sri Lanka increased 8-fold to a peak of 47 per 100,000 in 1995. By 2005, rates had halved. We investigated whether Sri Lanka's regulatory controls on the import and sale of pesticides that are particularly toxic to humans were responsible for these changes in the incidence of suicide. METHODS Ecological analysis using graphical and descriptive...

Empirical Evidence on the Impact of European Insider Trading Regulations

Between 1988 and 1994 ten European countries introduced or modified their regulations on insider trading. We evaluate in this article the impact of such regulatory changes on the risk, return, and some other characteristics of these ten markets. After extensive testing, we find that the evidence suggests that these regulations have had little (if any) impact on the market characteristics we exa...

The impact of federal regulations on health care operations.