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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021
The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade
Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012
The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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The impact of policy measures on future power generation portfolio and infrastructure : a combined electricity and CCTS investment and dispatch model (ELCO)
Mendelevitch, Roman; Oei, Pao-Yu - 2015
This paper presents a general electricity-CO2 (ELCO) modeling framework that is able to simulate interactions of the energy-only market with different forms for national policy measures. We set up a two sector model where players can invest into various types of generation technologies including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392062
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571943
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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Impacts of the German support for renewable energy on electricity prices, emissions and profits : an analysis based on a European electricity market model
Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577403
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A fair price for energy? Ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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How effective are advertising bans? On the demand for quality in two-sided media markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - 2011
advertising motive. We analyze the impact of both the strength of mutual externalities and advertisement regulation policies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277419
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Selling Cross-Border in Online Markets : The Impact of the Ban on Geoblocking Strategies
Bourreau, Marc; Manenti, Fabio M. - 2021
We develop a model of strategic geoblocking, where two competing multi-channel retailers, located in different countries, can decide to block access to their online store from foreign consumers. We characterize the equilibrium when firms decide unilaterally whether to introduce geoblocking...
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