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Governance Reform of German food safety regulation: Cosmetic or real?

Steiner, Bodo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

BSE in Germany in 2000. Due to the establishment of a large-scale private sector quality assurance scheme, regulation … discusses whether changes in regulation, administration, and liability standards have improved the effectiveness and the … allocative efficiency of German food safety regulation. …

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Adoption of a clean technology using a renewable energy

Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We consider a monopolistic firm producing a good while polluting and using a fossil energy. This firm can adopt a clean technology by incurring an investment cost decreasing exponentially with the adoption date. This clean technology does not pollute and has a lower production cost because it...

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An economic model of contagion in interbank lending markets

Ladley, Dan - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2010

This paper considers the stability of a financial system in which heterogenous banks interact through a lending market. We analyse a discrete time model in which households and banks are located on a circular city. Households present banks with risky investment opportunities, which banks fund...

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Responding to economic crises: good intentions, bad incentives, and ugly results: a speech at The Union League of Philadelphia, October 20, 2010

Plosser, Charles I. - In: Speech (2010) Oct 20

Presented by Charles I. Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia> The Union League of Philadelphia, October 20, 2010

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DEVELOPMENT OF BOND MARKET IN BANGLADESH: ISSUES, STATUS AND POLICIES

JAHUR, Mohammad Saleh; QUADIR, S.M. Nasrul - In: Management Research and Practice 2 (2010) 3, pp. 299-313

policy factor, issue management factor, investment policy factor, macro-economic and regulatory factor, and market & issue …

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Need for pragmatic regulation of markets: the takeaway from the recent financial crisis

Shunmugam, V. - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 3 (2010) 2, pp. 309-320

Despite being in an increasingly globalized economy with markets located far and wide, regulatory authorities across national boundaries, while focusing on their own market yards, had been in the dark about what had been happening in markets across borders. If leveraging opportunities and opaque...

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Regulation, Credit Risk Transfer, and Bank Lending

Pausch, Thilo; Welzel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2011

) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk-sensitive way: Compared … to a situation without regulation the optimal volume of loans decreases more as the riskiness of loans increases. CDS … trading is found to interact with the former effect when regulation accepts CDS as an instrument to mitigate credit risk …

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Endogenous Response to the ‘Network Tax’

Fique, José Pedro - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2011

The turmoil in the financial markets that had its roots in the 2007 US subprime crisis prompted government action all over the world motivated by contagion concerns, leaving a heavy bill for the tax payers to pick up. We find that a contributory regime based on contagion risk exposure changes...

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Socio-Spatial Implications of Street Market Regulation Policy: The Case of Ferias Libres in Santiago de Chile

Linares, Lissette Aliaga - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011

Unlike in most Latin American cities, street vendors organized in farmers’ markets popularly known as ferias libres in Santiago de Chile, gained legal recognition early in the twentieth century. Since then, comunas, or local municipalities, have provided vendors with individual licenses that...

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Fair value accounting and procyclicality: mitigating regulatory and accounting policy differences through regulatory structure reforms and Enforced Self Regulation

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

In what ways can changes to the structure of regulation (as well as other regulatory reforms) mitigate the effects of …

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