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Competition and Payment Card Interchange Fees : A Brief Note to the OECD Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum
Abrantes-Metz, Rosa M. - 2021
, centering on market definition and the nature and strength of indirect network effects. In today’s rapidly evolving regulatory … the value to all again. This positive feedback, known as the “network effect,” creates a virtuous circle and could …. Hence, the strength of the network effect influences the pricing strategy of the platform as a whole, potentially creating …
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Special tax regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean : compliance, social protection, and resource misallocation
Azuara, Oliver; Azuero, Rodrigo; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; … - 2019
Simplified tax regimes reduce both tax rates and compliance costs for small firms. On the one hand, these regimes increase the number of businesses formally registered and have the potential of also expanding the safety net when they subsidize the contributions to social security of workers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992057
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Why do voters support procyclical fiscal policies? : experimental evidence from Latin America
Ardanaz, Martin; Hübscher, Evelyne; Keefer, Philip; … - 2023
Governments often pursue procyclical fiscal policies, even though they reduce voter welfare. Is this because voters actually prefer procyclical policies? The analysis in this paper exploits the first individual-level evidence from an original survey of 12,000 respondents in 8 countries across...
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Competition in the railway industry : an international comparative analysis
Gómez-Ibáñez, José A. (contributor);  … - 2006
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Big Push or Big Grab? Railways, Government Activism and Export Growth in Latin America, 1865-1913
Bignon, Vincent - 2013
Railways were one of the main engines of the Latin American trade boom before 1914. Railway construction often required … trade-related, this generated a two-way feedback between government revenues and railways with a potential for multiple …
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Privatizing Highways in Latin America: Is It Possible to Fix What Went Wrong?
Engel, Eduardo M.R.A.; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic, Alexander - 2003
This paper reviews the Latin American experience with highway privatization during the last decade. Based on evidence from Argentina, Colombia and Chile, we find that private financing of new highways freed up fewer public resources than expected because public funds were often diverted to bail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369235
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The Degree of Commitment to Regulator Independence : Measurement and Impact
Montoya, Miguel A. - 2014
This study computes measures of the degree of independence in practice of telecommunications regulators for Latin American and Caribbean countries in a new data set for 23 countries between 1990 and 2004. We focus on the degree to which governments are able to commit to preserve regulator...
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The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation : Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
Estache, Antonio - 2014
regulation. South American electricity regulators can reduce this information asymmetry by increasing international coordination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751038
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Privatizing highways in Latin America : is it possible to fix what went wrong?
Engel, Eduardo; Fischer, Ronald; Galetovic P., Alexander - 2003
This paper reviews the Latin American experience with highway privatization during the last decade. Based on evidence from Argentina, Colombia and Chile, we find that private financing of new highways freed up fewer public resources than expected because public funds were often diverted to bail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612538
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The Measurement of Regulator Independence in Practice : Latin America and the Caribbean
Montoya, Miguel A.; Trillas, Francesc - 2014
independence, which improve upon the measures of independence that have been used so far in the empirical regulation literature. We … of independence on network penetration …
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