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BAUBY, Pierre - Centre International de Recherches et d'Information sur … - 2009

organisation for planning and programming 2. Provision and regulation of water services a) Origins of the delegation-concession of … delegation-concession system as applied to the water supply-water treatment sector c) Regulation issues and reform initiatives B …

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Le système français de gestion de l’eau

BAUBY, Pierre - Centre International de Recherches et d'Information sur … - 2010

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International banking and liquidity risk transmission: lessons from across countries

Buch, Claudia M.; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2014

Activities of international banks have been at the core of discussions on the causes and effects of the international financial crisis. Yet we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through international banks, including the reasons for...

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EU-India Free Trade Agreement

Khorana, Sangeeta; Perdikis, Nicholas - In: South Asia Economic Journal 11 (2010) 2, pp. 181-206

The European Union (EU) and India are currently negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) and investment framework. There is an ongoing debate as to whether the EU-India FTA will act as a building block for the trading partners. This article addresses the broader concerns about...

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Price regulation of utilities

Treasury, Australian - In: Economic Roundup (1999) 1, pp. 57-69

This article examines the current economic thinking on prices regulation of utilities. In particular, the article …

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The financial sector in Papua New Guinea — A good case of reform

Biggs, Peter - In: Economic Roundup (2007) 3, pp. 73-94

This paper contains a review of the institutions, markets and regulation involved in the financial sector in PNG. An …

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Heterogeneous firms and the impact of government policy on welfare and informality

Mendicino, Caterina; Prado, Mauricio - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 1, pp. 151-156

We analyze the formality benefits through productivity-enhancing public goods. We document that: benefits from formality matter for firms’ optimal decisions; there is a disconnect between the objectives of maximizing formality versus welfare; this disconnect is mitigated under higher formality...

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Macro-financial determinants of the great financial crisis: Implications for financial regulation

Caprio, Gerard; D’Apice, Vincenzo; Ferri, Giovanni; … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 44 (2014) C, pp. 114-129

contribute to extend the analytical toolkit available for macro and micro-prudential regulation. …

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Transparency in Electricity Markets

Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2013

The European Commission is introducing new regulations on submission and publication of data in electricity markets (SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market...

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The regulation of markets with interdependent demands

Fiocco, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo - In: Information Economics and Policy 27 (2014) C, pp. 1-12

(imperfect) substitutes and can engage in lobbying activities. Under centralized regulation, a single regulator is established …, whose mandate is to maximize aggregate welfare. Under decentralized regulation, each firm is assigned to a regulator charged … with maximizing the welfare generated by that firm. With asymmetric cost information, centralized regulation results in a …

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