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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. - 2008

"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....

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Big bad banks? : the impact of u.s. branch deregulation on income distribution

Beck, Thorsten - 2007

"Policymakers and economists disagree about the impact of bank regulations on the distribution of income. Exploiting cross-state and cross-time variation, we test whether liberalizing restrictions on intra-state branching in the United States intensified, ameliorated, or had no effect on income...

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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia

Brambilla, Irene - 2005

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty alleviation, in rural Zambia. The reforms comprised the elimination of the Zambian cotton marketing board that was in place since 1977. Following liberalization, the sector adopted an...

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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data

Klapper, Leora - 2004

"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. Our focus is on regulations governing entry. We find entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally should have...

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Coase v. the Coasians

Johnson, Simon - 1999

judicially enforced private contracts, judicially enforced laws, or even government regulation, may be the cheapest way to bring … strategies may sometimes be the best. This paper compares the regulation of financial markets in Poland and the Czech Republic in … the Czech Republic, hands-off regulation was associated with a near collapse of the stock market. These episodes …

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The Competition Between Competition Rules

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...

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Japan's Big Bang and the Transformation of Financial Markets

Ito, Takatoshi - 1999

A first step in the 'big bang' markets was the deregulation of the foreign exchange market on April 1, 1998. This paper examines how the bid-ask spread and conditional volatility in the yen/dollar foreign exchange market changed around the time of the deregulation. Intra-day data are analyzed...

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Government as a Discriminating Monopolist in the Financial Market : The Case of China

Gordon, Roger H. - 1999

charging much higher prices for equity sold to domestic than to foreign investors can simply reflect the more inelastic demand …

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Energy and Environmental Markets, Industrial Organization, and Regulation

Kellogg, Ryan; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how … the topics examined by this literature--especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation …

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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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