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Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
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Product and labor 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 labor …
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government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …
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strives to partly redress this lacuna on the theory side by introducing three novel political economy mechanisms with …
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The pay-as-you-go social security system, increasingly burdened by dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants whose birth rates exceed those of the native born birth. The paper examines adynamic political-economy mechanism through which the social security system influences the young...
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regulation took effect. I find that strategic firms reduced their emissions by approximately 20% relative to other firms and …
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In this paper we reconsider the evidence on capital account liberalization and growth. While we find indications of a positive association, the effects vary with time, with how capital account liberalization is measured, and with how the relationship is estimated. The evidence that the effects...
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Despite several theoretical contributions and considerable informal empirical evidence" to the contrary, a notion that trade and investment are substitutes persists in trade policy" analysis. This paper considers the liberalization of commodity trade versus liberalization" allowing direct...
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business cycle conditions at the time of deregulation significantly affect adjustment. A reduction of firing costs entails …
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