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Wettbewerb in der Energiewirtschaft. Am 10. und 11. März 2008 am Institut für Weltwirtschaft in Kiel durchgeführte Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb
Oberender, Peter (contributor) - 2009
wieder wird die Frage nach effektivem Wettbewerb in der Energieversorgung kontrovers beantwortet, nicht zuletzt unter dem … Bandes - allesamt schriftliche Fassungen der im März 2008 in Kiel auf der Jahrestagung 2008 der Arbeitsgruppe Wettbewerb des …
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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area
van Leuvensteijn, Michiel; Bikker, Jacob A.; van … - 2007
This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604814
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Free Sky and Clouds of Restrictions
Piermartini, Roberta; Rousova, Linda - 2009
An increasing percentage of trade occurs via air. However, air services are excluded from the WTO Agreement and, as a result, the aviation market is regulated by a plethora of Air Services Agreements. In this paper, we investigate the extent of discrimination -in terms of access to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427545
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Der Kommissionsvorschlag zur Deregulierung des Handwerks - Eine kritische Einschätzung der ökonomischen Literatur
Lankau, Matthias; Müller, Klaus - 2015
auf die bereits vorliegenden Forschungen zur Deregulierung durch die HwO-Novelle 2004 stützen könne. Jüngste Forschungen … sich nicht belegen, dass die Deregulierung des Handwerks seit 2004 zu einem Beschäftigungswachstum geführt habe. Die …. This report seeks to summarize the theoretical and empirical literature on licensing deregulation. We will critically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964150
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Auswirkungen disaggregierter Regulierung auf die Kapazität von Verkehrssektoren: Eine wettbewerbstheoretische und empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel des Luftverkehrssektors
Keitel, Sebastian - 2015
Infrastrukturen in Verkehrssektoren sind regelmäßig Gegenstand von Diskussionen um Marktversagen und Markteingriffe. Die in der EU verfolgten Regulierungsansätze und die daraus entstandene Regulierungslandschaft insbesondere in Verkehrssektoren sind dadurch divers: Während...
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Competition in bank-provided payment services
Bolt, Wilko; Humphrey, David - 2013
, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of … competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605584
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The Impact of Market Reforms on Competition, Structure and Performance of the Philippine Economy
Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2005
The paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on competition and productivity. Competition is the main channel … through which trade liberalization affects economic performance. Competition fosters innovation and technology adoption which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429816
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The role of financial markets and innovation in productivity and growth in Europe
Hartmann, Philipp; Heider, Florian; Papaioannou, Elias; … - 2007
The extended period of limited growth experienced until recently in many European countries raises the issue as to which policies could be most effective in improving their economic performance. This paper argues that further financial sector reforms may be a valuable complement to ongoing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606224
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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A fair price for energy? Ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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