Big firms are often keen on costly labour-market regulation because it kills small competitors.
Securities market regulation does not often have much to do with foreign policy.
For another example, consider another change to labour-market regulation, proposed by Mr Byers's department at the end of May.
Within the OECD, it comes last or second-last for restrictive product-market regulation, excessive state control and barriers to entrepreneurship.
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But the creep of foreign policy into market regulation should go no further.
Knabb says he pleaded with market regulation officials at Nasdaq to look into the seemingly unusual activity, but it continued.
At any rate, there is a debate to be had about the right amount of market regulation and fiscal consolidation.
Increasing supply means ensuring high quality, affordable health commodities through a strong health system and appropriate market regulation and finance policies.
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The reforms "should tackle weaknesses in product market regulation, labour market institutions, tax systems, and strengthen the single market, " the body said.
Turkey is the worst in the OECD for excessive product-market regulation.
According to SEC spokesman Matt Well, the SEC's office of market regulation is in the process of finalizing proposals to increase the transparency of SRO governance.
Financial jurisdictions had been underbidding each other in market regulation.
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Using various indicators to gauge the stringency of product-market regulation and the cost of hiring and firing workers, the study finds strong evidence that heavy-handed regulation reduces productivity.
My impression is that this can be seen in the example of the Netherlands, which has relatively high rates of unionization and low levels of labor market regulation.
With Mr Palocci at his elbow, Lula might have scaled back the ruinously expensive pension system, brought sanity to labour-market regulation and simplified a fiendishly complex tax code.
In my last column I discussed the historical roots of the financial market regulation in the U.S. I argued that it had served us well--with periodic tinkering--for several decades.
While open skies would undoubtedly help to clear transatlantic excess capacity and liberalisation between America and Europe would help to guide the logic of the marketplace worldwide, it must be preceded by better internal-market regulation.
OECD's indicator of product-market regulation (ie, the extent of state ownership, the red tape involved in setting up a business, and barriers to international trade and investment) again puts India at the bottom of the class.
At a more substantive level, there has already been intelligent commentary on what MF Global means in terms of the real role and efficacy of market regulation, and the purportedly uncoordinated roles of the various agencies.
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The complaints have gotten a sympathetic ear on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers have just gotten a proposal by the Treasury Department for a sweeping overhaul of financial market regulation, including the merger of the SEC with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the reassignment of many of the SEC's enforcement duties to the stock exchanges and other self-regulatory agencies.
Bank prop traders are being squeezed out of the market by regulation and this will leave a big liquidity hole.
In fact, in 2012, direct investments into private businesses accounted for only about 12% of the total market for Regulation D Rule 506 offerings.
Compiling a report for G20 finance ministers last year, IOSCO found those other players in the market want regulation, but doubt financial regulators have the expertise to provide it.
His decision acknowledges that, while reforming an insurance market is a regulation of commerce, Congress cannot artificially create its own "free rider" crisis in the insurance market and then use that crisis to justify an otherwise unconstitutional mandate as "necessary and proper" to save the market from collapse.
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And they know how to operate in a complex market where government regulation imposes high costs.
Foreign investors know that in such a case they will only have to endure market competition and regulation.
What keeps Ebay from becoming a stock market is government regulation: Most countries like their securities markets to follow rules.
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Robert Steel doesn't have any experience running a commercial bank, but he knows a lot about the stock market and financial regulation.
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