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Call for papers by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum

2013-04-23

Call for papers to a workshop by the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum on Regulations, Entrepreneurship and Firm Dynamics in august in Stockholm

Special issue in: European Journal of Law and Economics

The workshop will bring together researchers in the area of regulations (e.g., regulatory economics, law and economics, finance and growth), small business research and economic policy research, management and entrepreneurship research.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Regulatory policy and entrepreneurship
Regulatory policy and firm growth/dynamics
Labour market regulations, entrepreneurship and firm growth/dynamics
Financial market regulations and allocation of capital
Capital market regulations, entrepreneurship and firm growth/dynamics
Product market regulations, entrepreneurship and firm growth/dynamics
Regulatory impact assessments and law and economics of regulatory policy
Industry, sectorial or country studies are welcomed
Corporate law and regulations

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Continued work to simplify matters for business

2013-04-08

The Swedish Government has released a brochure on the continued work to simplify matters for businesses in Sweden. The mission and work of the Swedish Better Regulation Council is also featured in the brochure. Read it here! (pdf )

Annual Report 2012

2013-02-25

The fourth Annual Report from the Swedish Better Regulation Council is now available in english.

More than half of all impact assessments that pass the Council´s reviews are still, more than four years after the Council´s establishment, deemed as unsactisfactory. In order to increase the quality of the impact assessments, efforts are required from all actors involved.

Read our Annual Report here!

Join us at the IRRC in Berlin to discuss gold-plating

2013-01-28

This years International Regulatory Reform Conference will be taking place in Berlin on January 31st – February 1st.

The Swedish Better Regulation Council will be present and also participating in a workshop on Clarifying gold-plating: Mitigating barriers to trade in the single market. Our director Christina Fors will be talking about why the question of gold-plating is so important to adress and the tools which can be used to discourage unnecessary over-implementation of EU-legislation. The workshop will take place on Friday the 1st February between 10.50- 12.20.

You can also find a blog-post on the topic on the blog Smart Regulation – for improved governance

Come find us if you´re attending the IRRC conference. We are happy to discuss better regulation in general and gold-plating in particular!

Annual Report from Nationaler Normenkontrollrat

2013-01-25

The Swedish Better Regulation Councils sisterorganisation in Germany, Nationaler Normenkontrollrat (NKR), have released their annual report for 2012 in english. It´s titled Better Regulation- Providing Appreciable Relief to the Citizens, the Business Sector and Public Authorities.

Read the full report here.