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Em-powering economics: Some thoughts on policy and financial markets

Falkinger, Josef - 2012

This paper addresses the discussion between economic power and the power of politics with particular focus on financial … markets. After general reflections about the economic basis of power, the paper discusses in a general equilibrium framework … and insurance illusion. Rate of return regulation is proposed as an appropriate regulatory measure. Alternatively the …

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Indifference Pricing for Power Utilities

Malamud, Semyon; Trubowitz, Eugene; Wüthrich, Mario V. - National Centre of Competence in ResearchFinancial … - 2008

We study utility indifference pricing of claim streams with intertemporalconsumption and power (CRRA) utilities. We …

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Impact of Cartel Enforcement on Compliance in the Chemical Industry

De Stefano, Gianni; Stephan, Andreas - 2021

This paper undertakes a qualitative analysis of the relationship between EU cartel enforcement in the chemical industry in the period 1997-2010 and compliance measures announced in the Annual Reports of the undertakings involved. It goes on to focus on Akzo Nobel NV’s unique use of an internal...

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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...

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Monopolistic screening under learning by doing

Gärtner, Dennis - 2007

This paper investigates the design of incentives in a dynamic adverse selection framework when agents' production technologies display learning effects and agents' rate of learning is private knowledge. In a simple two-period model with full commitment available to the principal, we show that...

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Telecommunications regulation and new services: A case study at the state level

Prieger, James E. - 2000

The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been … previously quantified in the literature. This study compares state-regulated services in Indiana under rate of return regulation … (RoRR) and under alternative regulation. The econometric model comprises an count process (for innovation) followed by a …

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Auditor Independence and NAS : A Comparative Analysis of Selected Current Regulatory Frameworks

Islam, Ainul - 2012

There is a widespread public perception that the provision of NAS undermines auditor independence. In order to protect auditor independence, the regulatory frameworks of many countries include regulations and guidelines which auditors are required to observe. This paper provides a comparative...

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Drug quality and safety issues in India

Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015

Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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