costs (increased substitutability) or a higher number of hospitals. With semi-altruistic providers and a fairly general cost …

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 …

-gas electricity generation assets in New England that benefit from their gas-fired competitors paying higher fuel input costs. We … consider improvements to market design and regulation as these two energy markets become increasingly interlinked …

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

This paper explores the impact of airport noise regulation on airline service quality and airfares. It also … characterizes the socially optimal stringency of noise limits, taking both noise damage and the various costs borne by airlines and … investigation into the economics of airport noise regulation using a model where the interests of the key relevant stakeholders are …

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 …

This paper examines the role of both cost-sharing schemes in health insurance systems and entry regulation for … deregulation may lead to quality-improvements of pharmaceuticals, despite reducing price-setting power of pharmaceutical companies …

of telecommunications as given by Façanha and Resende (2004), Resende and Façanha (2005) and Resende and Tupper (2009 …