This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a … evidence that the duration of entry regulation has a negative impact on consumer surplus. We also find that entry protection …

difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer … access price regulation is an effective instrument to make the entrant and consumers better off. …

performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …

. More competition-friendly regulations, as measured by the OECDs' Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicator improve economic … businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …