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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization
Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530366
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Strategic Quality Choice with Minimum Quality Standards
Lutz, Stefan; Lyon, Thomas P; Maxwell, John W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In many markets governments set minimum quality standards while some sellers choose to compete on the basis of quality by exceeding them. Such ‘high-quality’ strategies often win public acclaim, especially when ‘environmental friendliness’ is the dimension along which firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656312
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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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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
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Slippery fish : enforcing regulation under subversive adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2019
Attempts to curb illegal activity through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
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 … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
; regulation ; tax burden …
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