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Shleifer, Andrei - 2010

Regulation of economic activity is ubiquitous around the world, yet standard theories predict it should be rather … uncommon. I argue that the ubiquity of regulation is explained not so much by the failure of markets, or by asymmetric … accounts for the ubiquity of regulation, for its growth over time, as well as for the fact that contracts themselves are …

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Market imperfections versus regulatory imperfections : product market regulation (Forum)

Joskow, Paul L. - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 8 (2010) 3, pp. 3-7

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Regulation of the wholesale broadband access market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 11 (2013) 2, pp. 50-52

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Lessons from the banking crisis : a return to narrow banking ; international financial architecture (Forum)

De Grauwe, Paul - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 7 (2009) 2, pp. 19-23

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The New Systems Competition

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2002

While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

Buera, Francisco J. - 2008

We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and neighbors' past experiences influence policy choices, through their effect on policymakers' beliefs. We estimate the model using a large panel of countries. We find that there...

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People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

Guiso, Luigi - 2002

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys...

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Emissions trading and energy policy : worldwide trends and current problems

Lüder Barre, Niklas; Gronwald, Marc; Lippelt, Jana - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 10 (2012) 4, pp. 50-53

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Allcott, Hunt - 2012

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....

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