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Regulation, Privatization, and Airport Charges: Panel Data Evidence from European Airports

Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Clougherty, Joseph A.; Mueller, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-one European airports over an eighteen-year period. We are able to extend the literature on the role of airports as an essential … element in transport infrastructure by offering the first analysis of the impact of different regulatory policies and … main empirical results indicate that aeronautical charges are lower at airports when single-till regulation is employed …

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Market Structure, Countervailing Power and Price Discrimination: The Case of Airports

Haskel, Jonathan; Iozzi, Alberto; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

joint ownership of airports? Does airline countervailing power stop airports raising fees? Should airports be prohibited, as … upstream concentration or in the substitutability between airports always increases the landing fee; (b) the effect of … regime between airlines and whether airports can price discriminate: airline concentration reduces the landing fee when …

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?

de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

emissions related to transport are of smaller magnitude, roughly 3% in both periods. In a third exercise, we use linear …

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Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820

Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

factors – in terms of transport and information – explain behaviour of different components. Previous analyses should be …

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Optimal Public Policy for Venture Capital Backed Innovation

Keuschnigg, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper discusses the role of public policy towards the venture capital industry. The model emphasises four margins: supply of entrepreneurs due to career choice, entry of venture capital funds and search for investment opportunities, simultaneous entrepreneurial effort and managerial advice...

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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S; Nitzan, Shmuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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The Political Economy of Clientelism

Robinson, James A; Verdier, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Income redistribution often takes highly inefficient forms, such as employment in the bureaucracy. We argue that this arises as an optimal political strategy in situations where politicians cannot commit to policies. Political exchanges between politicians and voters must be self-enforcing and...

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The Implications of British Macroeconomic Policy in the 1930s for Long Run Growth Performance

Broadberry, Stephen N; Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The paper provides a synthesis of recent research relating to supply side policy in the 1930s in a period when government sought to raise prices given sticky wages. We argue that as a politically constrained strategy to limit rises in unemployment this made sense. A bargaining model approach...

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Income Taxes and Women's Economic Dependency: A Comparison of West Germany and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

Swedish wives' market earnings contribute 39% of the net family earnings of couples living together. German wives contribute 12%. This paper employs Swedish and German micro data on earnings and personal characteristics of couples. After tax earnings are simulated, under both the tax system of...

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Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures Under Asymmetric Information About Infection Risk.

Mesnard, Alice; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper explores implications of the fact that individuals know more than the authorities about their risk of infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under which conditions the presence of quarantine measures...

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