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Powering Up Developing Countries Through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2012
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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The Engine Immobilizer : A Non-Starter for Car Thieves
van Ours, Jan C. - 2013
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 …
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The Impact of Market Regulations on Intra-European Real Exchange Rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
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The Quantification of Structural Reforms : Extending the Framework to Emerging Market Economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
. 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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Aid, Growth and Devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021
problems, excessive regulation, administrative costs and local capture. Using panel data for up to 60 countries, we find that …
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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World
van der Ploeg, Rick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...
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Strategic Bidding of Electric Power Generating Companies : Evidence from the Australian National Energy Market
Dungey, Mardi H. - 2018
We extend existing theoretical frameworks describing electricity markets where each generator provides a Market Operator (MO) with a supply schedule in advance. The MO combines these with demand forecasts to produce equilibrium prices and instructs firms on their dispatch. We incorporate the...
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Did Globalization Influence Credit Market Deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter - 2015
the Fraser Institute. The results from both cross-sectional and panel regressions using ordinary least squares indicate a …
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Product and Labor Market Deregulation in Unionized Oligopoly with Asymmetric Countries
Egger, Hartmut - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium trade model for two integrated countries that are similar in all respects except of the prevailing labor market institutions. In one country, the labor market is perfectly competitive, while in the other country labor unions are active in a...
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Complementary Bidding Mechanisms and Startup Costs in Electricity Markets
Reguant, Mar - 2014
I extend multi-unit auction estimation techniques to a setting in which firms can express cost complementarities over time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate these complementarities, which in these markets arise due...
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