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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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The Cost of Regulatory Compliance in the United States
Trebbi, Francesco; Zhang, Miao Ben; Simkovic, Michael - 2023
One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …
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Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation
Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023
We analyze how a privacy regulation taking the form of a cap on information disclosure affects quality …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … may harm users. However, if the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently large, privacy regulation has a positive …
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