Politická ekonomie 2008, 56(2):196-228 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.637

Byrokratická bariéra kvality regulace

Lenka Gregorová, Milan Žák
1 Univerzita Karlova v Praze.
2 Centrum ekonomických studií, Vysoká škola ekonomie a managementu, Praha.

Bureaucratic constraint of the quality of regulation

The paper analyzes an important part of the institutional quality - regulation and studies relation between the regulatory environment and the bureaucratic barriers. The analysis is based on theoretical models of the comparative institutional economics. In the paper, we discuss possibilities of measurement and evaluation of regulation and bureaucracy. We compare the quality of regulatory environment in the EU-25 countries for which we construct specific index. Given principles of the good regulation we characterize basic determinants of the regulatory environment and we try to evaluate how these principles are fulfilled in countries of the EU-25. Additionally, we aim to evaluate the quality of bureaucracy. Finally, we study how the regulatory environment is related to the bureaucratic barriers.

Keywords: regulation, bureaucracy, institutional quality, models of capitalism
JEL classification: G38, H11, H50

Published: April 1, 2008  Show citation

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