After more than two decades from its first implementation, Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) is increasingly seen as a key tool to boost competitiveness and sustainable development in industrialised economies. International best practices such as the US and UK RIA models have started producing...

Financial regulators are subject to both sector specific quality regulation principles as well as broader principles of good regulation, all defined by international and European institutions. Ex ante and ex post regulatory impact analyses, including burden reduction assessments, are among the...

This paper aims to give some remarks about the regulatory choices in Italy on the main network industries, former public monopolies (telecommunications, transport, water, energy). In particular, it focuses on the main legislative actions taken by the current Italian Government and provides some...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of environmental regulation and recent trends and developments in this area, rooted in the practical regulatory implementation activities of EPAs worldwide and drawing connection to sustainability, environmental risks, economics and...

Das Dienstleistungszentrum der Bundesregierung für Bessere Rechtsetzung im Statistischen Bundesamt ermittelte für das Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat den Verwaltungsaufwand für die Zulagengewährung nach dem Bundesbesoldungsgesetz und der Erschwerniszulagenverordnung. Hierzu...

Das Dienstleistungszentrum der Bundesregierung für Bessere Rechtsetzung im Statistischen Bundesamt ermittelte für das Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat den Verwaltungsaufwand für die Zulagengewährung nach dem Bundesbesoldungsgesetz und der Erschwerniszulagenverordnung. Hierzu...

In electricity day-ahead markets organized as uniform price auction, a small reduction in supply in times of high demand can cause substantial increases in price. We use a unique data set of failures of generation capacity in the German-Austrian electricity market to investigate the relationship...

Recent laboratory experiments support the popular view that the introduction of corporate leniency programs has significantly decreased cartel activity. The design of these repeated game experiments however is such that engaging in illegal price discussions is the only way for subjects to avoid...

For a general class of oligopoly models with price competition, we analyze the impact of ex-ante leniency programs in antitrust regulation on the endogenous maximal-sustainable cartel price. This impact depends upon industry characteristics including its cartel culture. Our analysis disentangles...