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A Bitter Medicine? Short-Term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries

Bassanini, Andrea - 2015

There is evidence that pro-competitive reforms in an industry with large incumbents induce the latter to re-organise and reduce prices in an attempt to deter entry of new competitors. Using data for three broadly-defined network industries in 23 OECD countries and covering over 30 years, I show...

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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure : Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity : Evidence from Micro Data

Haskel, Jonathan - 2012

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

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The Unemployment Impact of Product and Labour Market Regulation : Evidence from European Countries

Piton, Céline - 2018

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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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market

Heshmati, Almas - 2012

The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...

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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

We address the impact of corruption in a developing economy in the context of an empirically relevant hold-up problem - when a foreign firm sinks an investment to provide infrastructure services. We focus on the structure of the economy's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized,...

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Private Notes on Gary Becker

Heckman, James J. - 2014

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Does Private Tutoring Payoff?

Gurun, Ayfer; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2021

We assess the causal effect of private tutoring on the probability of university placement in Turkey. We find that tutoring increases the probability of being placed in a university when non-random selection is ignored. Moreover, among those utilizing private tutoring, greater expenditure on...

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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies

Charlot, Olivier - 2011

formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …

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Truth-Telling : A Representative Assessment

Abeler, Johannes - 2012

A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with student subjects suggests, however, that while many people do report the payoff-maximizing...

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