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1. The Effect Of Interjurisdictional Competition On Regulation: Theory And Overview / Peter Dernholz And Roland Vaubel -- 2. Politico-economic Causes Of Labour Regulation In The United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (even Lowering One's Own?) And Interjurisdictional Competition / John T. Addison -- Comment: Interjurisdictional Competition And Labour Market Regulation / Dennis C. Mueller -- Comment: Foreign Policy And Regulation / Gordon Tui Lock -- 3. Interjurisdictional Competition In Regulation: Evidence For Canada At The Provincial Level / Francois Vaillancourt -- Comment: How Can A Country Like Canada Be Inhospitable To An Influence Of Yardstick Competition On Regulation? / Pierre Salmon -- 4. Labour Market Regulation In The Eu-15: Causes And Consequences / W. Stanley Siebert -- Comment: Labour Market Regulation: Interindividual And Interjurisdictional Competition / Jean-michel Josselin -- Comment: Interjurisdictional Collusion And The Strategy Of Raising Rivals' Costs In Ec Labour Market Regulation / Roi And Vaubel -- 5. Political Competition And Economic Regulation In German History: Was There Regulatory Competition In Early Modern Germany? / Oliver Volckart -- Regulatory Competition And Regulatory Harmonization In The Nineteenth Century: The Example Of Food Protection And Labour Protection / Gerold Ambrosius -- Comment: The Strategy Of Raising Rivals' Costs By Federal Regulation Under Bismarck / Roland Vaubei -- 6. Regulatory Competition And Federalism In Switzerland: Diffusion By Horizontal And Vertical Interaction / Lars P. Feld -- Comment: Yardstick Competition Among Cantonal Fiscal Rules / Christoph A. Schaltegger -- 7. The Drivers Of Deregulation In The Era Of Globalization / Friedrich Heinemann -- Comment: The Uneasy Trend To Greater Economic Freedom / David Henderson. Edited By Peter Bernholz And Roland Vaubel For The Egon Sohmen Foundation. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.