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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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The Political Economy of Financial Regulation : Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century

Benmelech, Efraim - 2007

We investigate the causes and consequences of financial regulation by studying the political economy of U.S. state … affected by rate ceilings. Exploiting the heterogeneity across states and time in regulation, enforcement, and market … conditions, we find that regulation tightens when it is less costly and when it coexists with other economic and political …

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Health Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces : Regulated Competition with a Weak Mandate

Layton, Timothy - 2017

The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health insurance market. While the individual market represents a small slice of the U.S. population, it has historically been the market segment with the lowest rates of take-up and greatest...

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Cost of Service Regulation in U.S. Health Care : Minimum Medical Loss Ratios

Cicala, Steve - 2017

service regulation. Using variation created by the rule's introduction as a natural experiment, we find claims costs rose …

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Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2017

This paper measures changes in electricity generation costs caused by the introduction of market mechanisms to determine output decisions in service areas that were previously using command-and-control-type operations. I use the staggered transition to markets from 1999- 2012 to evaluate the...

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The Great Pyramids of America : A Revised History of US Business Groups, Corporate Ownership and Regulation, 1930-1950

Kandel, Eugene - 2013

Most listed firms are freestanding in the U.S, while listed firms in other countries often belong to business groups: lasting structures in which listed firms control other listed firms. Hand-collected historical data illuminate how the present ownership structure of the United States arose: (1)...

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