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The car industry and climate change : a historical review
Näsman, Mattias; Ballor, Grace - 2024
In the second half of the twentieth century, the car industry became a lightning rod for debates about human contributions to climate change. Widespread motorisation galvanised the green movements of the 1960s and 1970s, regulators increasingly demanded the use of pollution and climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014521047
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Telecommunications in small economies : the impact of liberalization and alternative technologies on universal service
Symeou, Pavlos C. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502479
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Corruption, institutions and regulation
Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert - 2011
We analyze the effects of corruption and institutional quality on the quality of business regulation. Our key findings … indicate that corruption negatively affects the quality of regulation and that general institutional quality is insignificant … regulation, over wider institutional reform. -- Business Regulation ; Economic Policy ; Institutional Quality ; Corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730374
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Foreign direct investment and the ease of doing business
Corcoran, Adrian; Gillanders, Robert - 2012
be near countries with good trade regulation and bad regulation in other respects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733076
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Net neutrality: a fast lane to understanding the trade-offs
Greenstein, Shane M.; Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2016
The "net neutrality" principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491740
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Regulating the doom loop
Alogoskoufis, Spyros; Langfield, Sam - 2018
Euro area governments have committed to break the doom loop between bank risk and sovereign risk. But policymakers have not reached consensus on whether and how to reform the regulatory treatment of banks' sovereign exposures. To inform policy discussions, this paper simulates portfolio...
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