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Electricity market operation : transitioning from a free market to a single buyer structure

Daglish, Toby; Bragança, Gabriel Godofredo Fiuza de; … - 2016

We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model monthly log price differences using a two-state Markov Switching model, allowing water...

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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms

Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical …In May 2018, a new regulation by the European Commission on data protection came into force, the General Data … Protection Regulation (GDPR). It requires many firms to update their data protection strategy. It may also complicate different …

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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability : evidence from privacy policies

Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to …

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The more the merrier? : on the optimality of market size restrictions

Negenborn, Colin von - 2019 - This draft: September 10, 2019

This paper provides a novel rationale for the regulation of market size when heterogeneous firms compete. A regulator …

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Efficiency and regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil

Motta, Ronaldo Serôa da; Moreira, Ajax - 2015

Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …

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Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets

Gu, Yiquan; Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2020

This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...

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News media bargaining codes

Sandrini, Luca; Somogy, Robert - 2024

We build a model of the news market where advertisers allocate their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by transferring revenues from social media to news websites already introduced in...

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