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Shadow Economy - The Impact of Regulation in OECD-countries

Enste, Dominik - In: International Economic Journal 24 (2010) 4, pp. 555-571

A comprehensive regulation index covering five major fields (labour, product and capital market; education … quality of official public institutions and administration. An overview of relevant findings on the impact of regulation on …

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New Estimates for the Shadow Economies all over the World

Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas; Montenegro, Claudio - In: International Economic Journal 24 (2010) 4, pp. 443-461

This paper presents estimations of the shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian, and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006/2007. According to our estimations, the weighted average size of the shadow economy (as a percentage of 'official'...

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Contract Law and Development

Boukouras, Aristotelis - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2011

-enforceable private contracts (regulation). However, because this mechanism is costly, its effectiveness depends on the aggregate … institutions and regulation is delayed for the later stages. At this point of time, the hold-up problem is solved and this spurs …

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Improving the financial sustainability of territorial systems of different levels based on the interaction of government and business

Sidorova, Elena - Center of Economic Security, Urals Branch

Improving the financial sustainability of territorial systems of different levels is considered in the article with regard to the interaction of government and business

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Stimulating Mechanisms in Ecologically Motivated Regulation: Will Ecological Policies in Transition and Developing Countries Become Efficient?

Matveenko, V. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association (2010) 8, pp. 10-34

In this paper, the theory of stimulating mechanisms is used to study the relationship between characteristics of polluting firms and results of ecological policy. It is shown that the optimal ecologically motivated policy can qualitatively change in accordance with a relative effectiveness of...

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Changes In The Regulatory Environment Of New Zealand’s Marine Fisheries 1970 To 2003

Walshe, Kim - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

This paper evaluates changes in the fisheries regulation environment in New Zealand’s marine fisheries from 1970 to … hypothesized (by policy advisors and policy makers) that the QMS would lead to less government intervention and less regulation for …

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The Cost of Equity of Network Operators - Empirical Evidence and Regulatory Practice

Schaeffler, Stephan; Weber, Christoph - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2011

regulation for utilities firms has made the task of setting an adequate cost of equity more difficult. Firstly, Legal Unbundling … regulation schemes has reinforced the importance of setting the equity return adequately. The approaches chosen by regulatory … providing a suggestion on how to put the FF TFM into practice accounting for the size of non-stock listed network operators. …

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Where are the taxis going?

Darbéra, Richard - HAL - 2010

industry is generally not a smooth ride, especially when some stakeholders, entrenched in obsolete regulation, have been able …

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The Importance of Regulation-Induced Innovation for Sustainable Development

Ashford, Nicholas A.; Hall, Ralph P. - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 1, pp. 270-292

This article explores the complex relationship between environmental regulation, innovation, and sustainable … through environmental, health, safety, economic, and labor market regulation. Greater support for these changes must also be …

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The role of external auditors in corporate governance: agency problems and the management of risk

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper not only recommends means whereby principal-agent problems could be addressed, but also considers various ways in which the external auditor and audit committees contribute as corporate governance tools. The impact of bank regulations on risk taking and the need for a consideration of...

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