Regulatory Arbitrage

Exploiting institutional differences across geographic regions or jurisdictions—such as tax rates, licensing requirements, and exchange rules—to source or produce in low-cost areas and sell in high-cost areas, thereby capturing the cost differential. At its core, it's a price discovery mechanism: persistent institutional gaps incentivize participants to exploit them until the gap narrows through market entry or policy adjustment.

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