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Economic Growth and Obesity : Findings of an Obesity Kuznets Curve
Cotet Grecu, Anca; Rotthoff, Kurt W. - 2014
Simon Kuznets’ (1955) hypothesis that as a country develops, a natural cycle develops where inequality first increases, then decreases, has become known at the Kuznets curve. This pattern has also been applied to the environment, an ‘Environmental Kuznets curve’, showing that as...
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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
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Review of legislation regulating the architectural profession
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
Competition Principles Agreement. The Commission was asked to report on the preferred option for regulation, if any, of the … architectural profession in Australia. On balance, the Commission assessed that the costs of current regulation outweigh its …
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Regulation of the taxi industry
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The paper contains an analysis of key issues facing State and Territory governments reviewing the regulation of taxis … report on Urban Transport, particularly its assessment of the rationales for entry restrictions and fare regulation, and its … policy makers in different jurisdictions with a common framework for assessing key issues in taxi regulation. …
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The importance of product reformulation versus consumer choice in improving diet quality
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2014
Improving diet quality has been a major target of public health policy. Governments have encouraged consumers to make healthier food choices and firms to reformulate food products. Evaluation of such policies has focused on the impact on consumer behaviour; firm behaviour has been less well...
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The importance of product reformulation versus consumer choice in improving diet quality
Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2014
Improving diet quality has been a major target of public health policy. Governments have encouraged consumers to make healthier food choices and firms to reformulate food products. Evaluation of such policies has focused on the impact on consumer behaviour; firm behaviour has been less well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010381370
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How regulation might fail to reduce energy consumption while still stimulating total factor productivity growth
Bansal, Sangeeta; Filippini, Massimo; Srinivasan, Suchita - 2023 - Last revision: January 27, 2023
This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...
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Are prescription drug monitoring laws effective for all? : evidence from administrative data
Gupta, Sumedha; Al Achkar, Morhaf; Ray, Bradley R. - In: Contemporary economic policy : a journal of Western … 40 (2022) 1, pp. 28-47
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Chapter 9 Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks
Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 591-645). 2007
regulation. Guided by restrictive legislative mandates, regulatory policies often strike a quite different balance with an … policy efforts. Inadequate regulatory enforcement and behavioral responses to regulation may limit their effectiveness, while …
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Precision requirements in pesticide risk assessments : contrasting value-of-information recommendations with the regulatory practice in the EU
Goeschl, Timo; Heyen, Daniel - 2016
Pestizide ermöglichen der Landwirtschaft gesteigerte Erträge, sie bergen jedoch auch Risiken für die menschliche Gesundheit und die Umwelt. Um diese Risiken zu begrenzen, müssen sie in einem Risikobewertungsverfahren ihre Sicherheit nachweisen, bevor sie zugelassen werden können. Die...
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