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Single-till versus dual-till regulation of airports
Czerny, Achim Ingo; Zhang, Anmin - 2015
are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports … activities into the regulation of airport infrastructure charges? This question is addressed in this paper. We discuss basic …
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Skill intensity in foreign trade and economic growth
Wörz, Julia - 2004
This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...
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Forecasting aggregate productivity using information from firm-level data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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Bank deregulation, competition and economic growth : the US free banking experience
Ager, Philipp; Spargoli, Fabrizio - 2013
We exploit the introduction of free banking laws in US states during the 1837-1863 period to examine the impact of removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic stability in this period, we are able to isolate the...
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Deregulating sunday shop policies
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - 2005
Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday shop opening. Based on 2003 data we show that diverse local characteristics, like the size of municipalities and religious...
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Corporate social responsibility by joint agreement
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Treuren, Leonard - 2021
requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. …
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017
This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price-cost markups), (ii) labor market imperfections (workers'...
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Explaining the wealth holdings of different cohorts : productivity growth and social security
Kapteyn, Arie; Alessie, Rob; Lusardi, Annamaria - 1999
It is well-known that individuals born in different periods of time (cohorts)exhibit different wealth accumulation paths. While previous studies have usedcohort dummies to proxy for this fact, research in this area suffers from aserious identification problem, i.e., how to disentangle age, time,...
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The trade-off between efficiency, effectiveness, and social feasiblity [feasibility] of regulating road transport externalities
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 1995
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The transaction costs perspective on costs and benefits of government regulation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Graaf, Marc de; Nijsen, André F. - 2009
regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory … regulated entities – part of these costs can be regarded as the administrative burden of regulation for the private sector – but … society due to e.g. miscommunication on the aims of regulation, and are, of course, hard to quantify. A cost calculation using …
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