environmental regulation on innovation and on productivity generally in separate analyses and mostly focusing on the USA. The few … existing studies focusing on Europe investigate the effect of environmental regulation either on green innovation or on … regulation on the output of innovation activity, as proxied by patents, thus providing support in favor of the "weak" PH in line …

market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less …

all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …

account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of …

; Agency ; Judges ; Regulation ; Electricity …

We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated … (with price and quantity competition) and optimal regulation that involves an informational externality to the competitors …. Although joint conduct of the activities generates scope economies, it also entails private information, so that regulation is …

directly harm the voter, but those that do so slightly can be wasteful of public resources. Regulation produced by politicians …