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Growing appreciation of the novel challenges of climate change and environmental degradation is among the core drivers of the ongoing transformation in the food industry. In response to the growing costs for society and the environment, the broad reliance on large-scale and industrial methods of...
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This paper reports on ongoing research on the interactions between product regulation and labor market outcomes. In … particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …
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Price control can restore efficiency in some cases, but an uncarefully designed policy fails to restore efficiency, yields side effects, or even exacerbates efficiency losses. This paper shows that the copyright royalty rule, which takes the greater of ad valorem royalties and perunit royalties,...
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Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers...
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …
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We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …
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