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Price effects of regulatory reform in selected network industries
2001
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Regulation of Telecom : What Works & Why? Lessons of Independent Central Banks
Stern, Jon; Trillas, Francesc - 2013
computing - arguably increases the need for and the complexity of regulation. This is not least because of the need to cover … independent regulation of telecoms is necessary to facilitate and promote commercialisation, liberalisation and privatisation of … banks and for the development of telecom and other utility service regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113351
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Liquidity regulation, the Central Bank, and the money market : conference paper
Scheubel, Beatrice; Körding, Julia - 2013 - This version: 15 February 2013
crisis, recent advances in global liquidity regulation try to curb the excessive reliance on short-term wholesale funding … regulation may interfere with the central bank's influence on short-term money market rates. This paper tries to fill the gap in … asymmetric information. Regulation can be welfare-improving in the presence of an externality and also in case of collateral …
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Utility Price Regulation and Time Inconsistency : Comparisons with Monetary Policy
Levine, Paul - 2010
We examine the hold-up problem of price regulation and compare it with the monetary policy credibility problem. For …-up problem in regulation turns out to be more serious than the inflation bias problem in monetary policy. Even with far …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760882
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Banking behaviour and political business cycle in Africa : the role of independent regulatory policies of the central bank
Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; Nsafoah, … - 2024
This study examines the effect of regulatory independence of the central bank in shaping the impact of electoral cycles on bank lending behaviour in Africa. It employs the dynamic system Generalized Method of Moments (SGMM) Two-Step estimator for a panel dataset of 54 African countries over the...
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Independent Utility Regulators : Lessons from Monetary Policy
Stern, Jon; Levine, Paul; Trillas, Francesc - 2015
This paper explores the similarity of the underlying economic problems that lead to the establishment of (a) independent central banks to operate national monetary policies and (b) independent regulatory agencies for telecommunications and other utility service industries. We show that, in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091599
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The Timing of Choice-Enhancing Policies
Murooka, Takeshi - 2016
Recent studies investigate policies motivating consumers to make an active choice as a way to protect unsophisticated consumers. We analyse the optimal timing of such choice-enhancing policies when a firm can strategically react to them. In our model, a firm provides an automatic enrollment or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985793
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The Transparency and Credibility of the European Central Bank
de Haan, Jakob; Amtenbrink, Fabian; Waller, Sandra - 2011
The European Central Bank (ECB) ranks highly on the author's proposed central bank disclosure inidcator, measuring activities of central banks to enhance the public's understanding of their policies. Nevertheless, the survey evidence offered in this contribution suggests that private-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212571
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Central Banks or Single Financial Authorities? A Political Economy Approach
Masciandaro, Donato - 2008
The objective of this work is to offer a political delegation approach for the analysis of the financial sector supervision. Focusing on the key issue in the debate on financial supervision structure - single authority versus multi-authorities model - the paper claims that the optimal degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073658
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Central bank coordinated policies and bank market power : an insight from the African context
Ofori-Sasu, Daniel; Agbloyor, Elikplimi Komla; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-23
The paper examines the impact of central bank regulatory policies on market power in Africa. The study presents a representative sample of 52 African economies over the period 2006-2020. The study shows that the individual regulatory policies of the central bank (i.e. monetary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500771