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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...

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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...

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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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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001

Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the power sector from 1938-1994: anticipation and adaptation

Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021

The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental … policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it … 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) on the power sector. This unique long panel provides us an extended pre-regulation benchmark …

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Effects of the human-mobility change during the COVID-19 pandemic on electricity demand

Aruga, Kentaka - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 10, pp. 1-11

This study investigated how the changes in the number of people’s visits to various locations during the COVID-19 pandemic influenced electricity demand. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the study reveals that while an increase in visits to groceries, pharmacies stores,...

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Certificate of need laws and health care use during the COVID-19 pandemic

Choudhury, Agnitra Roy; Ghosh, Sriparna; Plemmons, Alicia - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-11

This paper investigates the impact of state-level Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws on COVID and non-COVID deaths in the United States during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. CON laws limit the expansion and acquisition of new medical services, such as new hospital beds. The coronavirus pandemic created a...

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A review of the regulatory impact analysis of risk-based capital and related liquidity rules

Hogan, Thomas L. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/24, pp. 1-29

This paper reviews the cost-benefit analysis, or “regulatory impact analysis” (RIA), in US bank regulators’ risk-based capital (RBC) rule proposals. We review the principles of cost-benefit analysis and its application by US bank regulators. We provide a brief background on RBC rules and...

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Origins and consequences of child labor restrictions : a macroeconomic perspective

Doepke, Matthias (contributor); Krueger, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....

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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis

Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012

, decrease with anti-competitive regulation in upstream sectors and increase with the industry specific output gap; ii) decrease … with the national output gap, increase with the national employment rate and decrease with employment protection regulation …

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