commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …

prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been … whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel …

This chapter discusses the basis for and concepts of implementing performance based measures in financial regulation …

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …

-patent pharmaceuticals, replacing the existing price cap (PC) regulation. We estimate the effect of the reform using a product level panel … dataset, covering the drugs exposed to RP and a large number of drugs still under PC regulation in the time before and after … regulation in lowering drug prices, while the cross-price effect raises a concern about patent protection …

We study the impact of regulation on competition between brand-names and generics and pharmaceutical expenditures using … a unique policy experiment in Norway, where reference pricing (RP) replaced price cap regulation in 2003 for a sub …-sample of off-patent products. First, we construct a vertical differentiation model to analyze the impact of regulation on …