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Anti-corruption campaign in China: An empirical investigation

Yang, Li; Milanović, Branko; Lin, Yaoqi - 2023

database of officials who have been found guilty of corruption in China in the period 2012-21 with their personal … characteristics and the amount of embezzled funds. We use it to investigate the correlates of corruption, estimate the effects of … corruption on inequality, and find the expected increase in officials' income due to corruption and the gain in income …

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Competition in the German Broadband Access Market

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2002

This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing regulations and their impact on the deployment of high-speed Internet access are evaluated. It is argued that facilities-based competition is preferable to open-network regulations. The...

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Existenzgründungen: Ein Weg zur Beschäftigungsförderung?

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2005

In dem vorliegenden Artikel werden ausgewählte theoretische und empirische Aspekte des Zusammenhangs zwischen Existenzgründungen, staatlichem Handeln und Beschäftigung diskutiert. Dabei wird die Frage, ob Existenzgründungen zusätzliche Beschäftigung schaffen überwiegend aus einer...

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Hold-up Problems with Respect to R&D Investment and Licensing in Environmental Regulation

Breitscheidel, Jörg - 2005

We explore the design of self-financing tax-subsidy schemes to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation. The announcement of the tax rate seems to be preferable to solve hold-up problems with respect to the investment in environmental R&D. In contrast, only the announcement of the...

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Self-financing Tax/Subsidy Mechanisms in Environmental Regulation with Many Firms

Breitscheidel, Jörg - 2005

We consider the application of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms in environmental regulation and explore the question whether these mechanisms yield strong investment incentives in a market with many firms under Cournot competition. It turns out that the tax/subsidy mechanism with the...

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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten

Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...

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A Lead Market Approach Towards the Emergence and Diffusion of Coal-fired Power Plant Technology

Rennings, Klaus; Smidt, Wilko - 2008

Today, more than 70% of the world?s total electricity production is supplied by power plants using conventional fossil fuels. Coal accounts for more than half of the fossil fuel combustion in electricity plants. Future mega trends give reason to believe that electricity demand will double until...

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Critical loss analysis in market definition and merger control

Hüschelrath, Kai - 2009

The last couple of years have seen an increasing interest in critical loss analysis, both, in academia and in practice. This development is documented by various research papers, high-level exchanges between antitrust experts as well as an increasing number of case decisions which make use of...

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Disentangling irregular cycles in economic time series

Schober, Dominik; Woll, Oliver - 2015

Cycles play an important role when analyzing market phenomena. In many markets, both overlaying (weekly, seasonal or business cycles) and time-varying cycles (e.g. asymmetric lengths of peak and off peak or variation of business cycle length) exist simultaneously. Identification of these market...

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Net neutrality regulation: Much ado about nothing?

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2019

The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical findings that NN violations can be both welfare improving and welfare deteriorating, depending on the circumstances of the case in question. Thus, an ex post competition policy...

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