We study the effects of improvements in market transparency on eBay on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. An … improvement in market transparency by reducing strategic bias in buyer ratings led to a significant increase in buyer valuation … latter because of lower cost. Increasing market transparency improves on market outcomes …

Both global imbalances and financial market (de-)regulation feature prominently among the potential causes of the … current account balance. In contrast, bank privatization and securities market deregulation tend to raise current account … investigate the relationship between financial market regulation and current account balances, an area for which limited empirical …

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their … domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past … several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage and …

The Russian gas market is highly regulated. In this paper we examine possible impacts of regulatory changes on the … demand side of this market. In particular, we consider the effects on Russian energy consumers of removing natural gas … exports. Removal of other market imperfections in the Russian energy markets has smaller impacts on prices and quantities than …

setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …

deregulation may lead to quality-improvements of pharmaceuticals, despite reducing price-setting power of pharmaceutical companies …