The 1998 reform of the Italy's retail trade sector delegated the regulation of entry of large stores to the regional … governments. We use the local variation in regulation to determine the effects of entry barriers on firms' performance for a … has a positive effect on investment in ICT. Consistently, more stringent entry regulation results in higher inflation …

independence process, socioeconomic and structural controls, and the level of development – in order to assess whether a) breaking … away from the former Yugoslavia delivered an ‘independence dividend’ to the newly independent countries and whether b …) independence had a more favourable impact in richer, rather than poorer territories. The results of the analysis underline that …

between sub-national states or regions. Using plausible counterfactual analysis, we assess the costs of independence for … independence takes on the calibrated frictions of a counterfactual independent country. If the main change that comes with the … independence of regions of larger countries is that their border with their former union partner comes to resemble a normal country …

main empirical results indicate that aeronautical charges are lower at airports when single-till regulation is employed …, when airports are privatized, and -- tentatively -- when ex-post price regulation is applied. Furthermore, hub airports … generally set higher aeronautical charges, and it appears that price-cap regulation and the presence of nearby airports do not …