Product and labour market deregulation are fundamentally about reducing and redistributing rents, leading economic … players to adjust in turn to this new distribution. Thus, even if deregulation eventually proves beneficial, it comes with … regulation as determining both the entry costs faced by firms, and the degree of competition between firms. We think of labour …

health. The results support public choice theory of the nature of regulation and are inconsistent with the predictions of …What determines the enforcement of deregulation reform of business activities? What are the outcomes of deregulation … variation. 2) The enforcement of deregulation reform was better in regions with a transparent government, low corruption, better …

existing access regulation is based on a single essential network. We show that continued asymmetric access regulation of one … network does not control sufficiently for market power and benefits the unregulated network, and that symmetric regulation … would lead to higher consumer surplus. Furthermore, the whole setup of access regulation may not be viable in the long run …

We develop a theory of imperfect competition with loss-averse consumers. All consumers are fully informed about match …

governing the organization of economic space. Other standard lines of research in location theory are also discussed while …