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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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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 the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Mustafa, Dinc; … - 2019

internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002694

Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty reductions based on the standard that President Johnson...

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Measuring preferences for competition with experimentally-validated survey questions

Fallucchi, Francesco; Nosenzo, Daniele; Reuben, Ernesto - 2019

We validate experimentally a new survey item to measure the preference for competition. The item, which measures … participants' agreement with the statement "Competition brings the best out of me", predicts individuals' willingness to compete in … predicted differences in their preference for competition: professional athletes and non-athletes. As predicted, we find that …

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