Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data … single market in the European Union is impeded by absent or imperfect regulation conducted at the national level, which fails … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …

We examine how socio-political conflict in Bolivia has affected its economic performance since the 1970s. Such conflict … characteristics of conflict in Bolivia using a unique data set. We then provide estimates of the direct costs of conflict and examine … how levels of conflict, economic performance, and governance might be related in Bolivia's recent history …

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of …

precaution. Regulation made application of the electronic engine immobilizer, a simple and low-cost anti-theft device, mandatory … for all new cars sold within the European Union as of 1998. We exploit the regulation as source of exogenous variation in …

consumption options and show how optimal regulation evolves over time. In our base setting where social and private learning …