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Business Regulatory Reforms : Recommendations for Lebanon
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2013
This paper outlines short and long-term business regulatory reforms that Lebanon could implement to make doing business easier in the country. The short-term reforms represent “quick-wins” because they are primarily administrative in nature and can be accomplished quickly through ministerial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162284
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Regulatory Reforms in the Telecommunications Sector in Developing Countries : The Role of Democracy and Private Interests
Xu, Lixin Colin; Li, Wei; Qiang, Christine Zhen-Wei - 2005
We investigate the determinants of regulatory reforms between 1990 and 1998 in 50 developing countries. We find that the reforms are attributable to differences in the configurations of interest groups and in the political structure - in particular, the decision-making mechanisms and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066370
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Energy Privatization and Liberalization in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary : Enabling Network Industry Growth and Convergence Through Flexible Regulation
Teksten, Ryan Dain - 2014
The paper introduces insights into a methodology for developing regulation applicable to networked industries … restructuring of networked utilities in transition economies, discuss the regulation experiences that followed the implementation of … this process, and chart a method in which to establish growth-enabling liberalization through regulation. By evaluating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192088
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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507688
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Privatization in Italy 1993 - 2002 : Goals, Institutions, Outcomes, and Outstanding Issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2021
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319993
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Regulation and Economic Performance : Product Market Reforms and Productivity in the OECD
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2005
This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity gap, a key component of cross-country differences in GDP per capita. After a brief review of the theoretical literature, we bring together the results obtained in some of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446050
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OECD PMR indicators for professional services : civil law notaries as public good : efficiency and legal protection need higher regulation
Cappiello, Antonio - In: Rivista italiana di economia, demografia e statistica 76 (2022) 3, pp. 179-190
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Regulation and ICT Capital Input : Empirical Evidence from 10 OECD Countries
Porcher, Simon - 2014
empirically tests the effect of regulation on ICT capital inputs taken as a proxy for innovative activity. The sample consists in … a negative effect of regulation when an industry is getting closer to the technological edge. Two main results can be … obtained from this research. Firstly, regulation has always a positive effect when industries are close to the technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045793
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Regulation and ICT capital input : empirical evidence from 10 OECD countries
Porcher, Simon - In: Governance, regulation and innovation : theory and …, (pp. 182-196). 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207334
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Reinventing Competition in the EU Telecom Sector NGNs & the Macro-Environment
Tompras, Theodossis G. - 2010
The present paper (presented in ITU's & INA 2009 workshop on “Migration to Next Generation Regulatory Environment”) tries to identify the effects of the concentration experienced so far in the EU telecom sector and offers a high level strategy proposition for alternative revenue sources in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149305