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Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
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We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …
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We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
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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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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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nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
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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 …
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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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literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and “green” TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …; (2) regulation, however, is not conducive to plants’ “green” technical change, which provides evidence against the recast …
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literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and “green” TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …; (2) regulation, however, is not conducive to plants’ “green” technical change, which provides evidence against the recast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908663