areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the …

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the … like Spiegel and Spulber [1997, RAND Journal of Economics] highlight that effect. The present paper considers a panel data … result prevails independent of a control variable that indicates the regulatory regime. -- regulation ; capital structure …

telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local …

This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …

One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …