Companies have shifted their operations to cheaper and low regulation havens--a process that has also occurred in other industries, like manufacturing, especially after the enlargement of the European Union (Woolfson 2006, 2007; Woolfson and Calite 2007, 2008).
These include the new Eastern European 'tiger economies'--like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania--which have made widespread cuts to their already deficient regulatory apparatuses (Woolfson and Calite 2008).
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