Indicators of regulatory quality

Regulatory Impact Assessment: Towards Better Regulation?

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 36-55

  De Francesco, Fabrizio ^a   Radaelli, Claudio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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