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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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How effective are advertising bans? : on the demand for quality in two-sided media markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - 2011
We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240018
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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade patterns : a sectoral analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022
This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated to assess the effects on exports and imports of various sectors and products (selected on the basis of their trading volume or strategic importance) of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457807
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The competition between competition rules
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
profi t s. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781687
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The welfare loss from differential taxation of sectors in Germany
Radulescu, Doina (contributor);  … - 2008
-corporate sectors in Germany. In doing so, we perform a counterfactual analysis and ask how the allocation of capital across sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771793
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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment
Parker, David - 2004
This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402692
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985907
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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