Creative Regulation Research Articles

Strategic Naval Inspection for Port Safety and Security

Both risk externalities and moral hazard have conjured to induce risks of substantial consequences. These require both complex and creative regulation as well as control to inspect and prevent potential perpetrators. Sovereign maritime and port responsibilities are affected by such problems including for example, sea pollution by ships, terrorist attacks on ship lanes as well as ship owners seeking to bypass ports regulations. For this reason the control of both ship lanes and ports has become increasingly acute. The purpose of this paper is to outline “a random payoffs game-theoretical framework” for naval and ship inspections that enter a port such as New York or Hong Kong. Based on the problems results we discuss the effects and the implication of inspection cost and their derivatives. A number of examples are used to highlight some essential results. Extensions and conclusions for the inspection of potentially non-complying ship operators to regulation and sub-standard performance are also discussed to provide areas of further research.

Association of verbal and figural creative achievement with polymorphism in the human serotonin transporter gene

The purpose of this study was to examine the potential association between the S (short) and L (long) alleles of the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene and verbal and figural creative ability. Sixty-two unrelated Caucasian university students (29 men and 33 women) participated in the experiment. The results showed a significant association between verbal and figural creativity scores and the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism. The subjects with S/S and L/S genotypes demonstrated higher verbal creativity scores in comparison with the L/L genotype carriers. The carriers of S/S genotype demonstrated also higher figural creativity scores in comparison with the carries of L/S and L/L genotypes. Thus, it is the first report on a significant association between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and creative achievements. As the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism is associated with genetically defined alteration in the brain serotonergic neurotransmission our result provides an evidence of the involvement of the central serotonin system in creativity regulation.

Regulatory Objectives and Creative Regulation: The Enforcement Process in the Mexican Competition Commission

This paper analyzes how regulatory objectives are achieved in the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. An emphasis is made on the analysis of the environmental and institutional settings and the implications of these in its enforcement process and regulatory activity. The analysis includes the issue of regulatory decision making, the stage of intervention, regulatory rules and different styles of enforcement in regulatory agencies in their relevance for regulatory enforcement. The paper draws on the existing enforcement literature, especially the responsive regulation model and the regulatory space and dispersed regulatory action paradigms and reflects on similarities and differences in this specified case of a Mexican agency. While identifying a range of characteristics of the agency's enforcement process, it also finds there is a lack of studies of certain of the main characteristics identified. These differentiating characteristics are studied and analysed; its causes are explored in relation to the specific environment of developing civil law background and other environmental features that directly affect the possibility of achieving regulatory objectives. The paper analyses the agency's experience through time and space with special attention to the study of how it has been trying to adapt to a scenario that looks adverse to its objectives. The identification is made of an original style of enforcement which is characterized as Creative Regulation as a result of its adaptation process and the agency's drive to achieve certain objectives.

The Creative Regulation Process of the Mexican Competition Commission

This article analyses how regulatory objectives are achieved by the Mexican Federal Competition Commission. An emphasis is laid on the analysis of the environmental and institutional settings and the implications they have in its enforcement process and regulatory activity. The analysis includes the issue of regulatory decision making, the stage of intervention, regulatory rules and different styles of enforcement in regulatory agencies in their relevance for regulatory enforcement. The article draws on the existing enforcement literature, especially the responsive regulation model and the regulatory space and dispersed regulatory action paradigms and reflects on similarities and differences in this specified case of a Mexican agency. While identifying a range of characteristics of the agency’s enforcement process, it also finds that there is a lack of studies of certain of the main characteristics identified. These differentiating characteristics are studied and analysed; its causes are explored in relation to the specific environment of a developing civil law background and other environmental features that directly affect the possibility of achieving competition regulatory objectives. The article analyses the agency’s experience through time and space with special attention to the study of how it has been trying to adapt to a scenario that looks adverse to its objectives. The identification is made of an original style of enforcement which is characterised as “Creative Regulation” as a result of its adaptation process and the agency’s drive to achieve certain objectives. This article has been shortlisted for the 1st World Competition Young Writers Award.

Creative Regulation

Creative Regulation