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productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …
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regulation when policy is determined in a lobbying game between a government and firm. We compare the resulting regulation levels …
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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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Regulation fostering Managed Care alternatives in health insurance is spreading. This work reports on an experiment … willingness to pay. Marked preference heterogeneity is an argument against regulation imposing uniformity of contract in Swiss …
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This paper sheds light on some unexpected consequences of health insurance regulation that may pose a big challenge to …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315563
might be higher if the government cares much about production in the home country. The resulting regulation depends on the …
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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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In some countries, like Sweden, regulatory reform of monopoly industries such as telecom and mail went ahead without much consideration to how competition would affect the universal provision of services. This paper reviews issues that ought to be considered in the process of shaping a...
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directly harm the voter, but those that do so slightly can be wasteful of public resources. Regulation produced by politicians …
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