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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labor market regulations on unemployment using data from 24 European countries over the period 1998–2013. Controlling for country fixed effects, endogeneity, and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011871988
In an age of constant, complex and disruptive technological innovation, knowing what, when, and how to structure … for either reckless action (regulation without sufficient facts) or paralysis (doing nothing). Inevitably in such a case … promote innovation and offer better opportunities to people wanting to build a new business around a disruptive technology or …
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In 1999, the FCC largely deregulated middle-mile or "special access" enterprise communications services, resulting in explosive growth of new competitors using new technologies, including cable, fiber-optics, and high-speed Ethernet loops. But in recent years the agency has expressed increased...
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encourages infrastructure investments. The investment incentive of this regulation scheme has been multiply proven in the … lowers the investor’s termination rates but increases (in the absence of regulation), reduces (with LRIC regulation) or keeps … the competitors’ termination rates constant (with standard cost-based or price-cap regulation). Employing data for the …
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In the last year, many advocates have called for the imposition of Carterfone regulation on the wireless industry. The … similar wireless Carterfone regulation to all commercial wireless spectrum could suppress wireless infrastructure investment … regulation across the board is likely to cause particular harm to small or medium-sized wireless firms by enhancing the role of …
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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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substantial risks that Carterfone-type regulation would commoditize wireless network services in a way that could substantially …
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consumers and businesses directly affected by such regulation. The analysis also shows that over time unbundled loop prices are …
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In mid-April 2023, the final three nuclear power plants in Germany will be taken offline permanently. At the same time, the energy crisis resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine has fueled calls for the construction of new nuclear reactors in Germany. A similar debate is taking place in...
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