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Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
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. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
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This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …
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There is only limited evidence of how small firms respond to size-based regulations applied in various countries. We study this question by examining the value-added tax (VAT) threshold in Finland. We find sizable bunching of firms in the sales distribution just below the exemption threshold,...
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affects other countries by estimating cross-country tax and regulation elasticities …
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and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …
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We compare two genetic testing regulations, Disclosure Duty (DD) and Consent Law (CL), in an environment where individuals choose to take a genetic test or not. DD forces agents to reveal the test results to their insurers, resulting in a discrimination risk. CL allows agents to withhold that...
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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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risk include an additional stress component introduced by the recent Basel 2.5 regulation. Our optimization with the Basel …
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-best egalitarian argument for age-dependent working time regulation, which can make the short-lived better off and reduce inequalities …
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