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Pork, infrastructure and growth : evidence from the Italian railway expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
This paper studies the role played by politics in shaping the Italian railway network, and its impact on long-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century in a recently unified country, we first study how both...
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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...
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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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The impact of entry regulation on total welfare : a policy experiment
Liu, An-Hsiang; Siebert, Ralph; Zulehner, Christine - 2013
This paper evaluates how different lengths of entry regulation impact market structure and market performance using a dynamic structural model. We formulate an oligopoly model in the tradition of Ericson and Pakes (1995) and allow entry costs to vary over time. Firms have the opportunity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764443
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Market entry regulation and international competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten; Stähler, Frank - 2003
As a part of their industry or competition policies governments decide whether to allow for free market entry of firms or to regulate market access. We analyze a model where governments (ab)use these policy decisions for strategic reasons in an international setting. Multiple equilibria of this...
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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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Labor responses, regulation and business churn
Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw; Savagar, Anthony - 2018
We develop a model of sluggish firm entry to explain short-run labor responses to technology shocks. We show that the labor response to technology and its persistence depend on the degree of returns to labor and the rate of firm entry. Existing empirical results support our theory based on...
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Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high : the case of mobile telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029118
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A look upstream : electricity market restructuring, risk, procurement contracts and efficiency
Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Lazarova, Emiliya A. - 2014 - This version: November 25, 2014
This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream …. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated … plants. On the other hand, we also find that transaction costs may have increased as a consequence of deregulation. …
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Who (else) benefits from electricity deregulation? : coal prices, natural gas and price discrimination
Hughes, Jonathan E.; Lange, Ian - 2018
, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information … impact of deregulation. This also means policies that change fuel prices can have substantially different effects on …
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