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past 60 years, there have been many important developments in the RTA literature, both in terms of better methods to … evolution of the methods and data developments in the RTA literature, from Tinbergen's very first exploration until today, and …
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Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices and negative effects of uses that substitute more...
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We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …
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Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …
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Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …
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Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …
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observed changes in policies, the paper finds that product market regulation has the largest overall single policy impact five … market regulation. The paper also shows that policy impacts can differ at different horizons. The overall long-term effects …
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Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...
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A central question in the analysis of fuel-economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short-run equilibrium effects of an exogenous restatement of...
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