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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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limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …
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The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …
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: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …
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This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and … review, and interjurisdictional competition as well as the implications of union decline. Our analysis should help dispel any …
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is sufficiently well informed about consumer and firm behavior. -- bounded rationality ; competition ; regulation …
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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
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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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efficiency arguments are questionable, because of the disemployment effects of strict regulation. Regulation is better explained … rationally desires strict regulation to divert rent from other groups such as the skilled workers and the unemployed. Legal … tradition. Given a predisposition to intervene, these countries begin with some degree of labour regulation, which then creates …
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