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The regulator's trade-off: Bank supervision vs. minimum capital
Buck, Florian; Schliephake, Eva - 2012
We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and … regulation. Therefore, countries are better off by harmonising regulation on an international standard. …
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A Dynamic Theory of Regulatory Capture
De Chiara, Alessandro; Schwarz, Marco - 2021
Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond - 2020
nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
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Fare Evasion and Monopoly Regulation
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolás; Guzmán, León - 2022
We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299243
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Ambiguous Protection
Gründler, Klaus; Hillman, Arye L. - 2021
Import regulations are globally the most prevalent form of intervention in international trade. The regulations should, under rules of the WTO, protect consumers and the environment but can be used to protect producers. We investigate the ambiguity of intent. We set out a model that when applied...
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national … cost correlation and ex-ante technological risk. Finally, we characterize the global optimum and show how it can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264297
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Powering up developing countries through integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
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Regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation
Strausz, Roland - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by … funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction to regulatory risk depends on the curvature of aggregate demand …. 2) It yields a positive information rent effect exactly when demand is convex. 3) Firms benefit from regulatory risk …
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Autonomous Vehicles: Moral Dilemmas and Adoption Incentives
Feess, Eberhard; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2022
lower accident risk in the first place, a regulator therefore faces a trade-off: the harm-minimizing behavior of AVs (ex …
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy: lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package...
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