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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s electricity markets in many states were deregulated and almost half of the nation's 103 reactors were sold...
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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas
Fetter, T. Robert - 2018
In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...
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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries
Bourlès, Renaud - 2010
improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … to the productivity frontier …
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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity
Cette, Gilbert - 2014
This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … basis of their calibration by the OECD product and labour market anti-competitive regulation indicators suggests that nearly …
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Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity
Cette, Gilbert - 2013
through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …
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Regulatory Costs of Being Public : Evidence from Bunching Estimation
Ewens, Michael; Xiao, Kairong; Xu, Ting - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
. Consistent with firms seeking to avoid costly regulation, we document significant bunching around multiple regulatory thresholds …
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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles
Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
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The Local Residential Land Use Regulatory Environment Across U.S. Housing Markets : Evidence from a New Wharton Index
Gyourko, Joseph - 2019
regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …
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Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2009
The Constitution of 1787 was designed to give Congress powers over trade policy that it lacked under the Articles of Confederation. The Washington administration was split over whether to use these powers to raise revenue or to retaliate against Britain's discriminatory trade policies. Obsessed...
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Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Quality and Regulation : Evidence from US and Italy
Atella, Vincenzo - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between drug price and drug quality and how it varies across two of the most common regulatory regimes in the pharmaceutical market: minimum efficacy standards (MES) and a mix of minimum efficacy standards and price control mechanisms (MES+PC). Through a...
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