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National FTTH plans in France, Italy and Portugal

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010

In this paper, we analyze the specific national broadband plans which have been developed by some European governments to foster the deployment of next generation access networks, namely in France, Italy, and Portugal. In particular, we discuss the strategies adopted to achieve wide fibre...

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REQUIREMENTS REGARDING THE INDEPENDENCE OF STATUTORY AUDITORS

Cristian, Assoc. Prof. Ph.D Dragan; Oana, Lect. Ph.D … - In: Revista Tinerilor Economisti (The Young Economists Journal) 1 (2010) 14S, pp. 18-23

The auditors’ independence is a concept intensively discussed both in specialized literature and on regular level. This work highlights the requirements imposed by the achievement of such a desideratum, starting from the double significance of the independence expressed in specialized...

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Institutional and Economic Perspectives on Government Capacity to Assume New Roles in the Health Sector: a Review of Experience

Mills, Anne; Bennett, Sara; Russell, Steven - eSocialSciences - 2009

selects four important new reform arrangements: autonomous hospitals; user fees; contracting out; and regulation or enablement …

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Chile: Boosting Productivity Growth by Strengthening Competition, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Schwellnus, Cyrille - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy reforms that strengthen enforcement of cartel law must now be...

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Instituţiile de credit specializate şi creşterea competitivităţii economiei româneşti în contextul integrării europene

Ovidiu, Stoica - In: Revista OEconomica (2006) 01

In the recent years, in Romania the significant process of specialization for some credit institutions, appeared on the background of the improvement in the economic environment, determined the emergence of a more complex financial landscape that now comprises consumer finance societies,...

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Financial regulation: rising to the challenge

Prasad, Bandi Ram - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 2 (2009) 1, pp. 155-173

This paper discusses major initiatives from regulation in global financial markets in response to the current crisis …

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Financial crises: reducing pro-cyclicality

Goyal, Ashima - In: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies 2 (2009) 1, pp. 173-183

The swing in favour of markets weakened regulation, created incentives for excessive risk-taking, and reduced … transparency and diversity. As a result, financial markets became more pro-cyclical. The right combination of regulation and …. Central Bank accommodation has been blamed for the crisis, but excessive leverage due to lax regulation was of a much greater …

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Investment in Transport Infrastructure, and Gas-Gas Competition

Gasmi, Farid; Oviedo, Juan Daniel - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

This paper develops a simple model in which a regulated (upstream) transporter provides capacity to a marketer competing in output with an incumbent in the (downstream) gas commodity market. The equilibrium outcome of the firms' interaction in the downstream market is explicitly taken into...

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Illiquidity and all its Friends

Tirole, Jean - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The recent crisis was characterized by massive illiquidity. This paper reviews what we know and don't know about illiquidity and all its friends: market freezes, fire sales, contagion, and ultimately insolvencies and bailouts. It first explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through...

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Financial reform or financial dementia?

Fisher, Richard W. - In: Speech (2010) Jun 3

Remarks at the SW Graduate School of Banking 53rd Annual Keynote Address and Banquet, Dallas, Texas, June 3, 2010 ; "Let me make my sentiments clear: It is my view that, by propping up deeply troubled big banks, authorities have eroded market discipline in the financial system."

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