This article is among the first to integrate current climate change science, particularly ongoing impacts and predicted impacts, with a detailed roadmap for substantial reform of our environmental processes for reviewing proposed renewable energy projects. Most existing articles either focus...

Aiming for protection of consumers the EU has recently implemented direct price regulation in cellular mobile telephony and has announced plans to intensify such regulation in the near future. Using a simple model we examine the welfare effect of a price regulation on the targeted firm's...

Should the government procure equipment for its agencies or let them run their own procurment auctions? Suppose the agency has private information about product quality, but is inclined to favour local suppliers. Decentralization saves bureaucracy and "agency costs", but leads to biased...

Should the government procure equipment for its agencies or let them run their own procurement auctions? Suppose the agency has private information about product quality, but is inclined to favor local suppliers. Decentralization saves bureaucracy and "agency costs" (costs tied to truthful...

Este texto para discussão pretende resumir brevemente a literatura existente sobre a análise do tempo de abertura de negócios no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os principais resultados de cada trabalho são apresentados e constata-se em todos eles a inclinação de um elevado tempo para abertura...

Este estudo procura avaliar custos e benefícios de um programa que marcou o início de uma reação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro à guerra fiscal entre estados: o RIOLOG. Estima-se o impacto fiscal do programa por meio de duas metodologias distintas: (i) uma simulação da receita não recolhida...

Este texto para discussão tem como objetivo apresentar os resultados do ITAN (indicador de tempo para abertura de negócios), por etapa do processo de abertura. Para isso, foi realizado um levantamento dos procedimentos e instituições a serem percorridas com o intuito de se abrir um novo...

This paper uses qualitative and comparative analysis to reveal two important findings. First, in France, if the aim of reform announced by the Minister is to re-build the SNCF's monopoly, our fear is that, instead of stimulating French railways, this will cause a downward slide in the sector by...

Despite the pervasive nature of land use planning and land use regulation, evaluation of the costs and benefits of these policies has received only limited attention. This paper presents an empirical methodology, based on clear microeconomic foundations, for the evaluation of benefits and costs...

This paper organizes the judgments of economists regarding the impact of rent controls in the American context. The review is limited to journal articles listed by the American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, under the subject search “Rent Control,†and...