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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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Regulatory barriers and entry in developing economies
Bennett, John (contributor); Estrin, Saul (contributor) - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to 'excessive' entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328066
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How does entry regulation influence entry into self-employment and occupational mobility?
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2009
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self … changes after unforeseen economic shocks. -- Entry regulation ; self-employment ; occupational mobility …
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Young, single, but not free : the EU market for financial services
Booth, P. - In: Breaking up is hard to do ... : Britain and Europe's …, (pp. 253-273). 2016
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Product market reforms and unemployment in Europe
Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001
In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391687
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Barriers to entry, deregulation and workplace training
Bassanini, Andrea (contributor);  … - 2007
European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …
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How policy changes affect shareholder wealth : the case of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
Betzer, André; Doumet, Markus; Rinne, Ulf - 2011
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit …
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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …
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Origins and consequences of child labor restrictions : a macroeconomic perspective
Doepke, Matthias (contributor); Krueger, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of a child-labor ban....
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Employment protection, product market regulation and firm selection
Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); Prat, Julien (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search …-and-firing (intensive) margin. We characterize analytically how both margins depend on regulation before we calibrate the model to the US … through firm selection. Finally, the opposite effect of product and labor market regulation on job turnover rationalizes the …
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