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Market liberalization in the European natural gas market : the importance of capacity constraints and efficiency differences

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2009

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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Consequences of Brexit and options for a "global Britain"

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Kohl, Tristan - 2017 - This version: April 19, 2017

The United Kingdom has opted to leave the European Union. The trade and welfare consequences of this decision are large; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for new and ambitious trade agreements following Brexit,...

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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in … contrast to common view and policy practice. -- user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

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Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods : a general equilibrium study of the role of the state

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2011

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …

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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009

In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...

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Adding geography to the new economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2007

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Rent-seeking competition from state coffers : a calibrated DSGE model of the euro area

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2006

This paper incorporates an uncoordinated struggle for extra fiscal favors into an otherwise standard Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. This reflects the popular belief that interest groups compete for privileged transfers and tax treatment at the expense of the general public...

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The positive border effect of EU integration

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011

Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...

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