Fibre-deployment of next-generation communications networks is currently a major challenge for investing firms as well as for national regulators and is also subject to hot debates at EU level. This work examines the role of regulatory policies and competition controlling for relevant supply and...

This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...

With a sluggish economy, high unemployment, and unprecedented deficit spending, growing the economy and curbing federal spending are top priorities in Washington. A now-popular target for reform is regulation, which even President Obama claims to have "stifled innovation" and to have had "a...

The Government of the Russian Federation has issued documents which introduce from 2014 a simplified procedure for withdrawal of land plots from public (municipal) entities and state-owned enterprises in favor of the state treasury; amendments were introduced in to the procedure for provision of...

In October, the following documents were approved: the procedure for provision of budget investments to legal entities which are neither state or municipal entities, nor state or municipal unitary enterprises; guidelines for application of methods of determination of the initial (maximum)...

In July 2013, in the regulatory base of the budgetary process the following developments took place: amendments providing for grants in the form of subsidies to legal entities have been introduced into the Budget Code of the Russian Federation; conditions of buying-out of state property by...

It has been long recognized by members of both major political parties that federal regulatory burdens can operate as a hidden tax. President Donald Trump has echoed that view. In response, his administration has issued a “Regulatory Freeze Pending Review” Memorandum to executive branch...

The perspective of modern macroeconomic theory, be it new classical or old and new Keynesian, is that unemployment can be reduced only if real wages are cut. The modern Keynesians, basing themselves upon the microfoundations of efficiency wage theory, argue that real wages cannot and will not be...