an adequate regulation of access to the non-competitive infrastructures (monopolistic bottlenecks) is necessary in order …

We examine how new airport infrastructure influences regional tourism. Identification is based on the conversion of a … military air base into a regional commercial airport in the German state of Bavaria. The new airport opened in 2007 and … new commercial airport increased tourism in the Allgäu region over the period 2008-2016. The positive effect is especially …

. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate …

investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms after the fall of the …

-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated … within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

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 …

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …