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requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. …
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Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years before that the regulator decided to not take legal actions anymore against entrants violating institutional requirements. In the current analysis we investigate the effects of...
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We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …
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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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. Regulation of the price that the MaaS firm has to pay may lower prices, but, compared to the Integrator model, the change is … often small. So, even without price regulation, MaaS supply can benefit consumers by increasing competition and removing …
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. Regulation of the price that the MaaS firm has to pay may further lower prices, but compared to the Integrator the difference is … often small. So, even without price regulation, MaaS supply can already benefit consumers by increasing competition and …
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We address the problem of regulating the size of banks' macroprudential capital buffers by using market-based estimates of systemic risk and by developing a modeling mechanism through which capital buffers can be allocated efficiently across systemic banks. First, a Distance-to-Default type...
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In spite of a growing recognition of the importance of supply conditions for the level and volatility of house prices, empirical work on housing supply outside the US is scarce. This paper considers various measures of housing supply in the Netherlands, where real house prices have roughly...
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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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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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