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prefer regulatory risk and these preferences may contradict both the firm's and consumers'. -- optimal incentive regulation …The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by … funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction to regulatory risk depends on the curvature of aggregate demand …
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In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm s start-up decision relative to a pure price cap...
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The paper analyzes under what circumstances policymakers experiment with policies with uncertain outcomes, when they prefer to imitate policies initiated in other countries, and when they prefer to coordinate policies internationally. Policymakers have private costs of active policies and...
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Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …
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are needed to implement pre-electoral agreements. -- regulation ; regulatory risk ; political economy ; electoral …This paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have … incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always …
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We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of … taxes ; subsidies ; regulation …
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liquidity risk and characterizes them. Both a solvency (leverage) and a liquidity ratio are required to control the … interpret the 2007 run on SIV and ABCP conduits. -- stress ; crises ; illiquidity risk ; insolvency risk ; leverage ratio …
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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This paper provides the proofs to the analysis of a continuous time matching model with saving in Bayer and Wälde (2010a). The paper proves the results on consumption growth, provides an existence proof for optimal consumption and a detailed derivation of the Fokker-Planck equations. --...
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