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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … intensity per firm rather than just a misallocation towards smaller firms and lower entry. We generalize the theory to allow for …
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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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The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable outcomes, we propose framing risk equity policies in terms of equitable risk tradeoff rates based on six...
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Lars-Hendrik Röller, European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, diskutiert, wie sich die Regulierung im … Forschungsergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Intensität der Regulierung im internationalen Vergleich erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die … privatwirtschaftlichen Investitionen in die IKT-Infrastruktur hat. Eine Regulierung, die dem etablierten Netzbetreiber nicht die Möglichkeit …
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Aktuelle Daten zu den weltweiten Nettostromimporten zeigen, dass in den vergangenen Jahren eine gewisse Dynamik in den Entwicklungen der Nettostromimporte in Europa entstanden ist. So hat Deutschland im Jahr 2008 netto Strom exportiert, während sich für die 1990er sowie die frühen 2000er...
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The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental … policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it … 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) on the power sector. This unique long panel provides us an extended pre-regulation benchmark …
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Over the past decades, Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a significant increase in natural disasters, posing significant threats to infrastructure and economic activity, particularly in regions with poor infrastructure. Understanding the patterns in recovery time after disasters...
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European Labour Force Survey to investigate empirically the relationship between product market regulation and training …
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