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The Global Regulation of 'Fake News' in the Time of Oxymora : Facts and Fictions about the COVID-19 Pandemic as Coincidences or Predictive Programming?
Neuwirth, Rostam J. - 2021
The beginning of the twenty-first century saw an apparent change in language in public discourses characterised by the rise of so-called “essentially oxymoronic concepts”, i.e., mainly oxymora and paradoxes. In earlier times, these rhetorical figures of speech were largely reserved for the...
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Impact assessment of the Facilitadores Judiciales programme in Nicaragua
Barendrecht, J. M.; Kokke, Margot; Gramatikov, Martin A.; … - 2013
Facilitadores Judiciales is a programme run by the Organization of the American States and the Nicaraguan judiciary. The main objective of the programme is to improve access to justice for the disadvantaged people in Nicaragua. From 1998 to 2010 the programme was implemented in almost all rural...
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Piloting Regulatory Impact Assessment : A Comparative Analysis of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia
Staronova, Katarina - 2011
Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is a relatively new tool that has been introduced into the legislative system of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. To streamline its implementation, all three countries have decided to conduct a pilot RIA in a very similar area — administrative...
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Enforcing regulation under illicit adaptation
Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2018
Attempts to curb illegal activity by enforcing regulations gets complicated when agents react to the new regulatory regime in unanticipated ways to circumvent enforcement. We present a research strategy that uncovers such reactions, and permits program evaluation net of such adaptive behaviors....
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Nudge and the European Union
Alemanno, Alberto - 2020
, ethical and other abstract implications of behavioural-informed regulation, such as those concerning autonomy, dignity and … powers and the European Commission promises to redefine - in the framework of its Better Regulation agenda - the …
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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 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
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European Telecommunication Regulation - Effects on Telecommunication Providers
Veith, Tobias - 2010
This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …
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Is a Minimum Regulation Efficient : Empirical Evidence from Roadworthiness Inspection Regime in EU-27
Schulz, Wolfgang H. - 2015
Is a minimum regulation efficient or not? This general question of the paper is answered by empirical evidence using … cost-benefit analyses. The period technical inspection in the European Union is regulated by a minimum regulation leading … for Belgium, which has a best-case inspection, moving to the minimum regulation will lead to annual welfare losses of $93 …
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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021
The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and heterogeneous effects on retail and wholesale traffic volumes and …
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