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Nitzan, Shmuel; Procaccia, Uriel; Tzur, Joseph - CESifo - 2013

Article underscores the dark side of both phenomena by focusing on the anti-competitive features of regulation and reform and …

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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure

Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - CESifo - 2014

Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …

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Emissions Taxes and Abatement Regulation under Uncertainty

Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - CESifo - 2013

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

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

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

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All-pay-all Aspects of Political Decision Making

Giebe, Thomas; Schweinzer, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We study decision making processes with non-standard all-pay structures. We motivate this interest through a group of regulatory, political, legal, military, and economic applications where individual actions determine the consequences for a larger group or the public. The common features of...

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Green Havens and Pollution Havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2012

country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also …

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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony: An Exploratory Econometric Study

Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2009

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …

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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework

Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...

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Labor Courts, Nomination Bias, and Unemployment in Germany

Berger, Helge; Neugart, Michael - CESifo - 2006

Labor courts play an important role in determining the effective level of labor market regulation in Germany, but their …

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - CESifo - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …

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