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Coal demand, market forces, and US coal mine closures
Jordan, Brett; Lange, Ian; Linn, Joshua - 2018
Economic transitions have the potential to displace workers and cause social unrest. Coal mine closures in the eastern United States due to the changing electricity system and the resulting employment losses in rural areas have become salient issues for all levels of government. Previous...
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Stringency of land-use regulation : building heights in US cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Singh, Ruchi - 2018
This paper has explored the stringency of land-use regulation in US cities, focusing on building heights. Substantial …
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The cost of regulatory compliance in the United States
Trebbi, Francesco; Zhang, Miao Ben; Simkovic, Michael - 2023
One of the key questions in the study of regulation is whether the costs of regulatory compliance fall homogeneously on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320686
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Gasoline content regulation and compliance among US refineries
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Nauges, Céline; Thille, Henry - 2012
link between gasoline content regulation and the compliance behavior of refineries. We find that in areas with more … stringent gasoline regulation, there was increased compliance on the part of firms. -- Clean Air Act ; compliance behavior … ; energy markets ; product regulation ; petroleum refining ; environmental pollution …
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How much sunlight does it take to disinfect a boardroom? : a short history of executive compensation regulation
Dew-Becker, Ian (contributor) - 2008
This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
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Stock market returns, corporate governance and capital market equilibrium
Parigi, Bruno; Pelizzon, Loriana; Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig von - 2013
This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock...
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Digitization, measurement and the unmeasurable
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
of individual and societal factors. The reactions "Government Regulation", "Flooding", "Passive Escape: Digital Detox …
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Regulating untaxable externalities : are vehicle air pollution standards effective and efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - 2022
assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
Fossil fuels have shaped the European economy since the industrial revolution. We use new long-run panel data to analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of...
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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004
U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...
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