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Liberalizing Russian gas markets : an economic analysis
Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf; Hallre, Hilde; Moe, Arild - 2015
The Russian gas market is highly regulated. In this paper we examine possible impacts of regulatory changes on the demand side of this market. In particular, we consider the effects on Russian energy consumers of removing natural gas subsidies, and how changes in Russian gas consumption may...
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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857130
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Regional industrial effects in Germany from a potential gas deficit
Lehmann, Robert; Schult, Christoph - 2023 - This version: October 12, 2023
We estimate potential regional industrial effects in case of a threatening gas deficit. For Germany, the reduction leads to a potential decrease in industrial value added by 1.6%. The heterogeneity across German states is remarkable, ranging from 2.2% for Rhineland-Palatinate to 0.7% for...
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Entry barriers and the labor market outcomes of incumbent workers : evidence from a deregulation reform in the German crafts sector
Lergetporer, Philipp; Ruhose, Jens; Simon, Lisa - 2018
We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011921984
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Product and labor market deregulation in unionized oligopoly with asymmetric countries
Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - 2011
setting, we study the trade and welfare implications of labor market deregulation and compare these implications with the … consequences of product market deregulation. Thereby, we take into account that labor market reforms are subject to national policy … decisions and thus associated with unilateral intervention, while product market deregulation is determined at an international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314549
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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507688
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Economic and political liberalizations
Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308
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Holes in the dike : the global savings glut, US house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation
Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2015
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted … measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior … of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515411
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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004
California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402612