Governmentregulationis one of the additional factorswhen examining influence land regulations by local authorities on housing supply. Specifically, this factor is taken into consideration to investigate effect city-specific factors supply elasticities. Some government regulation sub-factors usually proxied index value obtained from Wharton Residential Land Use Regulation Index (WRLURI). However...

This paper shows that government anti-smoking campaign can benefit the government in the political bargaining with the tobacco industry by reducing the latter's alternative welfare. Although the equilibrium regulation on the tobacco industry increases as a result of government anti-smoking campaign, the political contribution from the tobacco industry will not necessarily go down. Anti-smoking ...

Government regulations are voluminous, heavily cross-referenced and often ambiguous. To cope with the complexity and diversity of regulations, we developed a formal information infrastructure for regulation management, analysis and compliance assistance. In this system demonstration, several aspects of the project are shown – a regulatory document repository, a regulation assistance system and ...

The persistently high number of people reporting that they have no health insurance has precipitated a number of new comprehensive proposals to extend coverage to most Americans. Such proposals must find solutions to fundamental problems that have thus far eluded policymakers, including the role of government regulation, how much to spend, and who should pay. The experience of the 1990s suggest...

This paper describes the mechanics of establishing a voluntary, incentive-based integrated coastal management program in Indonesia that is consistent with the newly established laws relating to decentralization. It first offers a close analysis of those laws, specifically Act No. 22/1999 and its implementing Regulation No. 25/2000 regarding management authorities, and Act No. 25/1999 and its im...

In this paper we present a novel model for governing societies based on modern information technology, which neither relies on manual bureaucratic labour, nor depends on process-based e-government services. We analyse the flaws of the latter and argue that egovernment is not feasible for sustainable governance due to permanently changing regulation; instead we propose a model in which people ca...

Stricter laws require more incisive and costlier enforcement. Because enforcement activity depends both on available tax revenue and the honesty of officials, the optimal legal standard of a benevolent government is increasing in per capita income and decreasing in officials’ corruption. In contrast to the “tollbooth view” of regulation, the standard chosen by a self-interested government is a ...

Mr. Eremia's paper discusses market forces, professional self-regulation, and private litigation individually and collectively as methods of maintaining and improving quality of care. He determines that whether separately or in conjunction, these three paradigms have not been successful agents in this regard. By analyzing the regulatory framework and oversight provided by the federal government...