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Policy-induced environmental technology and incentive efforts: Is there a crowding out?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
-friendly technology. Sceptics worry about the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on firms' competitiveness. Since … innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts could increase the cost of mitigating … environmental damage. Using matching techniques, we study the short-term effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on …
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Existenzgründungen: Ein Weg zur Beschäftigungsförderung?
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden ausgewählte theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Existenzgründungen, staatlichem Handeln und Beschäftigung diskutiert. Dabei wird die Frage, ob Existenzgründungen zusätzliche Beschäftigung schaffen überwiegend aus einer...
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Vertical integration, separation and non-price discrimination: An empirical analysis of German electricity markets for residential customers
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
and regulation schemes on retail electricity prices. We find significantly higher prices in markets with vertically …
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Regulation of pharmaceutical prices: Evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark
Kaiser, Ulrich; Mendez, Susan J.; Rønde, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
On April 1, 2005, Denmark changed the way references prices, a main determinant of reimbursements for pharmaceutical purchases, are calculated. The previous reference prices, which were based on average EU prices, were substituted to minimum domestic prices. Novel to the literature, we estimate...
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Corporate governance and current regulation in the German banking sector: an overview and assessment
Köhler, Matthias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper gives an overview over corporate governance and banking regulation in Germany. Particular attention is put …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494187
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the … functions. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not … due to regulation. …
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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...
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The Drivers of Deregulation in the Era of Globalization
Heinemann, Friedrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in … industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields …
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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets
Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only profitable …
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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives
Vanberg, Margit A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...
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