• Regulation

Most people agree that some rules are necessary for markets to work. But what rules do we really need? And how can we make sure they do not become too much of a burden on businesses and consumers?

Europe’s not-so common market
Oliver Marc HartwichJuly 1, 2010Business Spectator

Throughout the euro crisis, the continent’s politicians have not shied from using strong rhetoric about...

A European triumph amid the chaos
Oliver Marc HartwichMay 19, 2010Business Spectator

As the horror news stories from Europe are now coming in on an almost daily...

Towards a Red Tape Trading Scheme: Treating Excessive Bureaucracy as Just Another Kind of Pollution
Oliver Marc HartwichMay 19, 2010IA121

For many years now, trading schemes have been used as mechanisms to reduce environmental pollution....

Cap and trade our way out of red-tape pollution
Oliver Marc HartwichMay 19, 2010The Australian

What do carbon emissions and red tape have in common? They are both unwanted by-products....

More inscrutable than the Chinese
Stephen KirchnerFebruary 19, 2010The Australian

On September 24 last year, the Foreign Investment Review Board’s Patrick Colmer rose to speak...

Mr Swan’s preoccupation with superannuation
Robert CarlingFebruary 19, 2010Online Opinion

When public opinion is whipped into a stampede, facts, balance and perspective sometimes get trampled....

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