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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologies. Each domestic firm is controlled by a national regulator in a common market made of two...
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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …
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A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries entice...
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Can supranational infrastructure regulation compensate for national institutional weaknesses?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Estache, Antonio; Wren-Lewis, Liam - 2017
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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Flochel, Thomas; Straub, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra...
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Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We study how smugglers respond to different types of migration policies - legalisation through the sale of migration visas, or more traditional repressive policies through borders' enforcement, employers' sanctions or deportation - by changing the price they propose to illegal migrants. In this...
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Economic sentiment indicators and foreign direct investment : empirical evidence from European Union countries
Cieślik, Andrzej; Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
This paper studies the role of business sentiment in the decisions of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to undertake foreign direct investment (FDI) across European Union (EU) member states. Based on the knowledge-capital model, the study employs the Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589358
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Impact of technical barriers to trade on the trade in goods in the information and communications technology sector : differentiating by aim of the regulatory measure
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
In this modern digital world, goods from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are the engine of the global economy. While tariffs levied on ICT goods have been eliminated or significantly reduced since the conclusion in December 1996 of the Information Technology Agreement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614151
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Non-tariff measures and the quality of imported products
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
impact on the quality of traded products. However, for SPS measures only the existence of a regulation (i.e. the dummy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304204
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Determinants of specific trade concerns raised on technical barriers to trade
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2015
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