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

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 …

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

In September 2008, the EU replaced national-level regulation on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) in pesticides with … harmonized Community-wide regulation. Using data on pesticide MRLs for 53 trading partners over 2005-2014, we examine the effects …

2007, and especially in the euro area after 2010. That crisis triggered major changes to European financial regulation and …

are likely in the near future. -- banks ; comparative political economy ; financial regulation ; microprudential policy …

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 …