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The Determinants and Impact of Telecommunications Reforms in Developing Countries
Recuero Virto, Laura - 2014
, privatization, and the (re)structuring of regulation. Second, it attempts to estimate the extent to which these policies have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068709
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Political Accountability and Regulatory Performance in Infrastructure Industries : An Empirical Analysis
Recuero Virto, Laura - 2011
The relationship between the quality of political institutions and the performance of regulation has recently assumed … investigates its impact on the performance of regulation in telecommunications in time-series-cross-sectional data sets for 29 … the impact of political accountability on the performance of regulation is stronger in developing countries. An important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131298
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Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America : An Empirical Investigation
Jean, Sébastien - 2002
worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445912
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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry
Steiner, Faye - 2000
This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446021
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Evaluación del desempeño del sector de distribución de electricidad en Colombia: una aplicación del análisis de frontera estocástica
Moya, Yeinni Andrea Patiño; Flórez, Gustavo Adolfo Gómez - In: ENSAYOS SOBRE POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2010)
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781843
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Railway (De)Regulation: A European Efficiency Comparison
Friebel, Guido; Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the network to third parties. To estimate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656315
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Observed and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Models : An Application to the Electricity Distribution Industry
Kopsakangas-Savolainen, Maria; Svento, Rauli - 2009
electricity distribution utilities and the results are relevant in relation to electricity distribution pricing and regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201214
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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392296
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Regulatory Competition and Cross-Fertilization in the US Banking Markets : A Tiebout Extension and Empirical Evidence
Tirtiroglu, Dogan - 2020
We incorporate arguments from the Tiebout model into the regulatory competition equilibrium and study cross-fertilization in the productivity growth of banks between those in a state and others in this state's neighboring states. Empirically, we focus on two time periods: before (i.e.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856571
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Productivity in Electricity Retail after Market Liberalisation : Analysing the Effects of Ownership and Firm's Governance Structure
Stiel, Caroline - 2015
This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010961