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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joel - 2020

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

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Regulating national firms in a common market

Biancini, Sara - 2008

We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …

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The demands for environmental regulation and for trade in the presence of private mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2008

We study the nature of individual demands for environmental regulation and for trade openness in the general … respect to the stringency of regulation. Moreover, even though trade has the potential to benefit everyone, the poor may … oppose trade openness because of a concern that laxer environmental regulation will then be imposed in the interest of the …

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The political economy of regulatory risk

Strausz, Roland - 2010

This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist. Agreements that fully eliminate it exist when...

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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...

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MIMIC models, cointegration and error correction: an application to the French shadow economy

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008

The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...

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Hurricane insurance in Florida

Jametti, Mario; von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas - 2009

This paper studies the evolution of hurricane insurance in Florida over the last decades. Hurricanes (and other natural catastrophes) are typically referred to as uninsurable" risks. The more exposed property owners find it difficult to obtain insurance cover from the private market and/or can...

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Competition between content distributors in two-sided markets

Nygard Bergh, Harald; Kind, Hans Jarle; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; … - 2012

. Second, a TV channel might find it optimal to commit to not raising advertising revenue. Third, regulation of the advertising …

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Powering up developing countries through integration?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012

Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...

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Cryptocurrency Market Reactions to Regulatory News

Auer, Raphael - 2020

Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations …

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