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Regulatory reforms in selected EU network industries
Martin, Reiner; Roma, Moreno; Vansteenkiste, Isabel - 2005
In the course of the 1990s, the EU has embarked on an ambitious regulatory reform programme for a number of European network industries, such as telecommunications, energy and transport. This paper analyses the potential benefits of successful reforms in these sectors with a focus on the price...
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Investment in ICT: Determinants and Economic Implications
Fabritz, Nadine - 2015
This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
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Market Consequences of ICT Innovations
Mang, Constantin - 2016
This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...
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Economic Perspectives on the Implications of Public Child Care and Schooling for Educational Outcomes in Childhood and Adult Life
Zierow, Larissa - 2017
Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777554
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Supervisory Systems, Fiscal Soundness and International Capital Movement: More Challenges for new EU Members
Grünbichler, Andreas; Darlap, Patrick; Salo, Sinikka; … - 2004
On May 1, 2004, ten countries in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe will become full members of the EU. The parliaments and monetary authorities of the ten accession countries have already to a large extent adapted their legal and institutional structures to the new Europe-wide environment....
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Regulating the working conditions of platform work: What can we learn from EU member states?
Guinea, Oscar; Sisto, Elena; du Roy, Oscar - 2024
Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting this research to the context of digital platforms, three key … principles for assessing the regulation of working conditions on these platforms were identified: (i) the consistency with the …
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Sektorspezifische Regulierung: transitorisch oder ad infinitum? Eine internationale Bestandsaufnahme von Regulierungsinstitutionen
Schedl, Hans; Sülzle, Kai; Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007
Das ifo Institut hat bereits zu Beginn des europäischen Liberalisierungsprozesses die Organisation von Regulierungsbehörden untersucht. Der vorliegende Report knüpft mit einem internationalen Vergleich der Regulierungsinstitutionen an diese Arbeiten an. Am Beispiel der...
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Regulatory practice in the European telecommunications sector: Normative justification and practical application
Vanberg, Margit A.; Klein, Gordon J. - 2008
sector-specific regulation in this sector. It is shown that there is a conflict between static and dynamic efficiency goals … approach takes account of this conflict most adequately, as it is committed to minimal regulation. The European regulatory … framework for electronic communications markets is based on economic theory, and could principally be used to limit regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300954
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After the DMA, the DSA and the New AI regulation: Mapping the economic consequences of and responses to new digital regulations in Europe
Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar; Van der Marel, Erik; … - 2022
regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). These regulations build on an already established structure of digital and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560161
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A compass to guide EU policy in support of business competitiveness
Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar; Lamprecht, Philipp; … - 2022
The EU agenda for improving competitiveness is missing in action. Economic competitiveness has been a central plank in the development of the European Union - a relentless quest for policies that lead to more prosperity and that make European companies in world markets more successful. However,...
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