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This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment. Yet, previous empirical work has...
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monopolistic firm. More precisely, we discuss the influence of price regulation on the economic incentives to undertake costly R … price regulatory schemes in terms of incentives to undertake R&D effort, comparing a traditional price cap scheme with a … downward flexible price-cap scheme. The welfare analysis of these schemes and a discussion of their relative merits shows that …
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In many European countries, waste tariff systems are being updated to take account of the consolidation of circular economy objectives. We forecast the impact of a gain-sharing cost-reflective tariff on waste management sustainability. The cost-reflective tariff generates an economic surplus for...
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constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …
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Hungary has a history of high inflation rates. After the transformation period inflation reached up to 35% in the early … cushion the effects of inflation on households were various forms of price caps, e.g. for food prices, energy prices … that trade unions are rather weak in Hungary and only around one in five persons work at an establishment where a …
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inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on …
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Hungary is increasingly appearing on the map of trade in services. This is mainly due to the appearance of foreign … extent of Hungary's participation in the international division of labour in services. Moreover, lack of data hinders the … of around 50 such centres in Hungary). Two aspects of export oriented services projects are analysed in detail …
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the international economic and financial crisis deprived Hungary from normal credits, its government turned to … month benefit, reduced health-insurance contribution rates, replaced wage-price indexation with price indexation and worked …
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areas, however, in countries joining to the EU after 2004 it is still a relatively new phenomenon. In Hungary, for example … the LEADER programme in eastern Hungary. The examined Local Action Groups face diverse challenges concerning human, social …
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inspection of benefit office practices to show that there is good reason to investigate this issue in Hungary. We then report on …
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