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Competing for dark trades
Irvine, Paul J.; Karmaziene, Egle - 2023
We use recent European restrictions to evaluate how traders substitute across available dark pools. Our findings suggest that restricting dark trading at the most prominent platform has a detrimental effect on dark trading activity. Annual dark trading in a restricted stock decreases by more...
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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe
Gropp, Reint - 2010
role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks … profitability appears to converge to a common level. There is weak evidence that competition eliminates high profits for these banks …
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Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness
Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition - 2019
The potentially adverse impact of carbon pricing on the competitiveness of businesses and economies has been a matter of concern to industry and policymakers. It has also been a barrier to progress on carbon pricing. The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition launched the High-Level Commission on...
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The implications of Brexit for UK and EU regional competitiveness
Thissen, Mark; Oort, Frank van; McCann, Philip; … - 2019
Any form of Brexit will impact heterogeneously in terms of sectors and regions on the competitiveness of firms in both the UK and Europe. The ongoing uncertainty about the conditions under which the UK will be leaving the EU, creates difficulties in structurally estimating these impacts. Using...
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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature
Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020
internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …
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Sustainable nations : what do aggregate indicators tell us?
Pillarisetti, Janaki Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...
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Measuring Uncertainty
Jurado, Kyle - 2013
This paper exploits a data rich environment to provide direct econometric estimates of time-varying macroeconomic uncertainty, defined as the common volatility in the unforecastable component of a large number of economic indicators. Our estimates display significant independent variations from...
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Interest Rates and Money in the Measurement of Monetary Policy
Belongia, Michael T. - 2014
Over the last twenty-five years, a set of influential studies has placed interest rates at the heart of analyses that interpret and evaluate monetary policies. In light of this work, the Federal Reserve's recent policy of "quantitative easing," with its goal of affecting the supply of liquid...
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