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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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Conservation Policies : Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription?
Wichman, Casey - 2016
The efficiency properties of price and nonprice instruments for conservation in environmental policy are well understood. However, there is little evidence comparing the effectiveness of these instruments, especially when considering water resource management. We exploit a rich panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989886
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Energy-Efficiency Program Evaluations : Opportunities for Learning and Inputs to Incentive Mechanisms
Kaufman, Noah; Palmer, Karen L. - 2010
We analyze the evaluations of California energy-efficiency programs to assess the effectiveness of these evaluations in: 1) improving our understanding of their performance and 2) providing a check on utility incentives to overstate energy savings. We find that third-party evaluations are useful...
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Winners and Losers from Utility Privatization in Argentina : Lessons from a General Equilibrium Model
Chisari, Omar; Estache, Antonio; Romero, Carlos - 2005
in how serious it is about regulation. Chisari, Estache, and Romero assess the macroeconomic and distributional effects … benefit. Ineffective regulation cuts the gains from the reform by $1 billion or 0.35 percent of GDP. This cut in gains … government. For the poorest income classes, this implicit tax is about 20 percent, meaning that good regulation is in the …
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The Uk's Privatisation Experiment : The Passage of Time Permits a Sober Assessment
Parker, David - 2021
changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership changes in …
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Evaluation of Upper Secondary Schools on efficiency and productivity change in 2016-2019 : empirical evidence from schools in the region in Central Greece
Margaritis, Stylianos Gr. - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 71 (2021) 3/4, pp. 101-121
The study investigates the relative efficiency and productivity change of Upper Secondary Schools in the region of Central Greece during the period 2016-2019. It measures the technical and scale efficiencies and productivity change by using DEA output-oriented and Malmquist analysis. Empirical...
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Privatisation in developing countries : what are the lessons of recent experience?
Estrin, Saul; Pelletier, Adeline - 2016
This paper reviews recent empirical evidence on privatisation in developing countries. Particular emphasis is placed on new areas of research such as the distributional impacts of privatisation. Overall, the literature now reflects a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of privatisation. Thus it...
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Unemployment impact of product and labor market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-32
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using data from 24 European countries over the period 1998–2013. Controlling for country fixed effects, endogeneity, and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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The impact of regulation on innovation
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - 2021
Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation … changes in the direction of R&D, and find that regulation's negative effects only matter for incremental innovation (as …
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988