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heterogeneity and inefficiency, encapsulating the regulatory dilemma in comparative efficiency analysis for incentive regulation. It … with incentive benchmarking regulation that characterizes the European Union. The results confirm the importance of …
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telephone calls, sending text messages, or using data services in other EEA countries. The regulation was designed to create a … digital domestic market without adversely affecting consumers. The regulation raises the expectation of changes in mobile …
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Many entrepreneurs work informally because it is costly to start and run a business legally. Using a dynamic model of industry equilibrium, I show that the costs of the legal system can explain the cross country variability of the size of the informal economy. The model implies that the business...
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even though policymakers are aware of its pitfalls in both theory and practice. In our model, the regulator acts as both a … bureaucrat and an entrepreneur to maximize his self-interest through administering a deposit insurance scheme. The theory …. Empirically our theory is supported by the stylized facts, cross-country binary-choice regression results and a case study of …
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This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on the regulation of natural … institutions, price regulation with full information, price regulation with imperfect and asymmetric information, and topics on the … measurement of the effects of price and entry regulation in practice. The chapter also discusses the literature on network access …
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The objective of this work is to analyze the impact on Spanish retail firms¡¯ efficiency of the regulatory process experienced in the period 1996-2002. The intangible nature of services makes them more difficult to quantify, so we combine work measurements with the methodology of the...
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Este trabajo tiene como objetivo evaluar el desempeño en la eficiencia técnica de las empresas quedistribuyen energía en Colombia durante el período 2004-2007, usando el análisis de frontera estocástica(SFA). Se emplea una función de distancia translogorientada a los insumos, lo que...
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This paper considers a linear panel data model with time varying heterogeneity. Bayesian inference techniques organized around Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) are applied to implement new estimators that combine smoothness priors on unobserved heterogeneity and priors on the factor structure of...
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The main goal of a scientific journal is to diffuse new knowledge. The number of citations received by a journal can be considered as a measure of this objective and, in turn, as a measure of productivity in relation to the production process in which the journals are involved. In order to...
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