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The Effects of Short-Term Rental Regulation : Insights from Chicago
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Wagman, Liad; Zhong, Mengyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide an in-depth study of short-term rental (STR) regulation in Chicago. While many municipalities choose between …
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Restrict the Middleman? : Quantitative Models of PBM Regulations and Their Consequences
Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper provides the first quantitative economic models of pharmacy benefit management regulation. The price … "rebate traps." Applicable types of regulation include rebate rules, such as the HHS rebate rule and the Insulin Act …
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Secrecy Rules and Exploratory Investment : Theory and Evidence from the Shale Boom
Covert, Thomas R.; Sweeney, Richard L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze how information disclosure policy affects investment efficiency in non-cooperative settings with information externalities. In a two-firm, two-period model, we characterize equilibrium behavior under policies which disclose whether investment returns exceed a predefined level. These...
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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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Regulating the Direction of Innovation
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We …
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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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Social Media and the Behavior of Politicians : Evidence from Facebook in Brazil
Bessone, Pedro; Campante, Filipe R.; Ferraz, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the relationship between the spread of social media platforms and the communication and responsiveness of politicians towards voters, in the context of the expansion of Facebook in Brazil. We use self-collected data on the universe of Facebook activities by federal legislators and the...
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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The Steering Incentives of Gatekeepers in the Telecommunications Industry
McManus, Brian; Nevo, Aviv; Nolan, Zachary; Williams, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study trade-offs faced by multiple-system operators (MSOs), the gatekeepers in the provision of internet service, when setting prices and quality for internet access and TV service. In response to improvements in over-the-top video (OTT), MSOs choose between accommodating OTT to share in the...
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Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Dubois, Pierre; Gandhi, Ashvin; Vasserman, Shoshana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The United States spends twice as much per person on pharmaceuticals as European countries, in large part because prices are much higher in the US. This fact has led policymakers to consider legislation for price controls. This paper assesses the effects of a US international reference pricing...
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