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Impacts of Employment Regulation: Towards an Evaluation Framework

Borland, Jeff - Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, … - 2005

The main objective of this report is to propose an approach for evaluating the impact of employment regulation on … types of employment regulation and objectives; a presentation of a conceptual framework to represent the effects of … employment regulation on innovation, productivity and growth; a summary of the main empirical findings on effects of employment …

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On the Legitimacy of Coercion for the Financing of Public Goods

Bierbrauer, Felix - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...

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Do International Roaming Alliances Harm Consumers?

Bühler, Benno - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

endogenously formed if not prevented by regulation. …

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IS THE DEFENCE MARKET CONTESTABLE? THE CASE OF MILITARY AEROSPACE

Laguerre, Cedric - In: Defence and Peace Economics 20 (2009) 4, pp. 303-326

I demonstrate the existence of two sources of contestability in the military aerospace market, within producing and export countries, through the State's triple role as unique buyer, regulator and seller. For the producing countries, I introduce the new concept, 'sovereignty price'; that is, the...

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ASIGNACIÓN DE RIESGOS EN CONCESIONES VIALES: EVALUACIÓN DE LA APLICACIÓN DE MECANISMOS DE MITIGACIÓN DE RIESGOS EN CONTRATOS DE CONCESIÓN EN URUGUAY

Pereyra, Andres - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008

In infrastructure franchising, risks must be allocated to the agent that can handle them. To mitigate risks that the concessionaire can not handle with should decrease the return required by the concessionaire and increase the expected return of the Government. In this paper we analyze a...

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Rol del Gobierno. ¿Qué opinan los uruguayos?

Ferre, Zuleika; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2008

This paper presents the results of the Role of Government Survey conducted by the Department of Economics (FCS-UDELAR) under the Project of the International Social Survey Program, supported by the Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC) and the Asociación Cristiana de...

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A General Framework for Regulation and Liberalization in Network Industries

Jaag, Christian; Trinkner, Urs - Swiss Economics - 2009

In parallel with liberalization, sector-specific regulation in network industries has become a widely discussed topic … on whether such regulation is necessary and if so what its optimal design should be. Some argue for complete deregulation …. Consequently, competition law and sector-specific regulation play complementary roles. In this paper, we present a general economic …

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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...

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Multinational Banking in Europe: Financial Stability and Regulatory Implications Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Calzolari, Giacomo; Levi, Micol; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper examines whether multinational banks have a stabilising or a destabilising role during times of financial distress. With a focus on Europe, it looks at how these banks’ foreign affiliates have been faring during the recent financial crisis. It finds that retail and corporate lending...

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Institutions and the environment: the case for a historical political economy

DOUAI, Ali; MONTALBAN, Matthieu - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2009

This paper provides a critical review of the ‘state of the art’ of institutional analysis applied essentially by social-ecological economists in the environmental domain. It highlights both areas of strength and issues where there is still room for improvement in analytical terms, by...

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