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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries : The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
de Almeida, Edmar - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444125
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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry
Steiner, Faye - 2000
This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446021
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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries: The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046170
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Regulatory policy scan of Bulgaria : Promoting a sound regulatory framework for citizen well-being and economic growth
OECD - 2022
The Regulatory Policy Scan of Bulgaria assesses the country’s regulatory management capacity by taking stock of regulatory policies, institutions and tools, describing trends and recent developments, and identifying gaps in relation to good practices. Improving the entire regulatory policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457930
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Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America : An Empirical Investigation
Jean, Sébastien - 2002
worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445912
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Institutional set-up of active labour market policy provision in OECD and EU countries : Organisational set-up, regulation and capacity
Lauringson, Anne - 2021
This study provides a framework to compare and classify the institutional set-up of active labour market policy (ALMP) provision across countries, which is a key determinant of how well ALMP systems can respond to changing labour market needs, e.g. in response to the COVID-19 crisis. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660989
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Economic Research on Privacy Regulation : Lessons from the GDPR and Beyond
Johnson, Garrett - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477197
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Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets
Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Langer, Ashley; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
electric utilities have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468287
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444046
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Korea
Baek, Yongchun - 2004
Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444204