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Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Langer, Ashley; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

electric utilities have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during …

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Economic Research on Privacy Regulation : Lessons from the GDPR and Beyond

Johnson, Garrett - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …

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The Short-Run Effects of GDPR on Technology Venture Investment

Jia, Jian - 2018

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in the European Union in May 2018. We study its short …

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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration : Evidence from the Accounting Profession

Bloomfield, Matthew J. - 2015

The paper examines whether international regulatory harmonization increases cross-border labor migration. To study this question, we analyze European Union (EU) initiatives that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. Regulatory harmonization should reduce economic mobility barriers,...

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Data Privacy and Temptation

Liu, Zhuang - 2020

This paper derives a preference for data privacy from consumers' temptation utility. This approach facilitates a welfare analysis of different data privacy regulations, such as the GDPR enacted by the European Union and the CCPA enacted by the state of California, when a fraction of the...

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Regulation of Access, Pricing, and Planning of High Voltage Transmission in the U.S.

De Losa, Joe; Pfeifenberger, Johannes P.; Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The U.S. regulation of high-voltage transmission is highly complex and, as a result, generally poorly understood. The … are not synchronized with the larger regional grid. We summarize this complex structure of transmission regulation in the …

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Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid

Davis, Lucas W.; Hausman, Catherine; Rose, Nancy L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Encouraged by the declining cost of grid-scale renewables, recent analyses conclude that the United States could reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 at relatively low cost using currently available technologies. While the cost of renewable generation has declined dramatically,...

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The Shifting Finance of Electricity Generation

Andonov, Aleksandar; Rauh, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition. These new entrants are twice as likely to create...

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Energy Hogs and Energy Angels : What Does Residential Electricity Usage Really Tell Us About Profligate Consumption?

Borenstein, Severin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Since the 1970s, high volumetric (per kilowatt-hour) electricity prices have been justified in many policy discussions as encouraging more efficient use of electricity and placing more of the cost burden on those who are less prudent in their use. The argument has been used in support of...

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Patent Rights, Product Market Reforms, and Innovation

Aghion, Philippe - 2013

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this paper, we address this question by investigating how innovation responses to a substantial policy initiative increasing product market competition interact with the strength of...

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