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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation : Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2021

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors …

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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021

contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of … deregulation increases training incidence …

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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles; van … - 2021

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

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Migration-Regime Liberalization and Social Security : Political-Economy Effect

Razin, Assaf; Sand, Edith - 2021

The pay-as-you-go social security system, which suffers from dwindling labor force, can benefit from immigrants with birth rates that exceed the native-born birth rates in the host country. Thus, a social security system provides effectively an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper...

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Airport Noise Regulation, Airline Service Quality, and Social Welfare

Brueckner, Jan K.; Girvin, Raquel - 2021

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 their passengers into account. The analysis also...

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Is a 'Factory Southern Africa' Feasible? Harnessing Flying Geese to the South African Gateway

Draper, Peter - 2016

The countries comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) are currently not very integrated into global value chains (GVCs), potentially missing out on important development opportunities. Accordingly, we explore high level options for promoting their integration. Given East Asia's...

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Cross-Racial Envy and Underinvestment in South Africa

Haile, Daniel - 2006

Trust games are employed to investigate the effect of heterogeneity in income and race on cooperation in South Africa. The amount of socio-economic information available to the subjects about their counterparts is varied. No significant behavioural differences are observed, when no such...

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Nominal and Real Exchange Rate Models in South Africa : How Robust are They?

Égert, Balázs - 2013

This paper addresses difficulties in modelling exchange rates in South Africa. Real exchange rate models of earlier research seem to be sensitive to the sample period considered, alternative variable definition, data frequency and estimation methods. Alternative exchange rate models proposed in...

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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes

Crayen, Dorothee - 2013

Empirical evidence that migrants send home more remittances after disasters raises the question of whether remittances can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a unique data set on the usage patterns of financial services...

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The Impact of Monetary and Commodity Fundamentals, Macro News and Central Bank Communication on the Exchange Rate : Evidence from South Africa

Égert, Balázs - 2013

This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...

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