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Product market regulation and labor market outcomes : how can deregulation create jobs?
Burda, Michael C. - 2000
This paper reports on ongoing research on the interactions between product regulation and labor market outcomes. In … particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781500
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German supermarket retail
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021
identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012547036
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Regulation and internet access in Germany
Reutter, Michael - 2001
We explain the recent events in the German market for online access using a model of a regulated monopoly renting phone lines to retailers. Retailers offer either a linear or a flat tariff to consumers. Consumer heterogeneity leads to adverse selectiion. We show why market entry for flatrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398800
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Crypto trading and bitcoin prices : evidence from a new database of retail adoption
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Dörr, Sebastian; … - 2023
Prices for cryptocurrencies have undergone multiple boom-bust cycles, together with ongoing entry by retail investors. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail use of crypto exchange apps at daily frequency for 95...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540782
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Do central banks have precautionary demands for expansions and for price stability? : theory and evidence
Cukierman, Alex; Muscatelli, V. Anton - 2002
for low inflation. Using data for four G7 economies, the paper shows that, except for Germany, nonlinear and asymmetric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410664
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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials
Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003
The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506475
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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Being independent is a great thing : subjective evaluations of self-employment and hierarchy
Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - 2003
One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507967
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Economic growth and endogenous fiscal policy : in search of a data consistent general equilibrium model
Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2000
explaining the interaction between private agents and fiscal authorities in the U.S., West Germany, Japan and the U.K. over the … is necessary to formally test the models' theoretical restrictions. In West Germany and Japan there is evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781505