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This article analyses recent developments in Spanish banks’ fee and commission income and the related applicable legal framework. The main conclusions point to the increasing relevance of payment services, the overall rise in such income in Spain, in clear alignment with other European...
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Artículo de revista ; The disruptive effects of the digitalisation of assets call for legislative and regulatory adaptation and for a review of the reporting framework applicable to this general category of assets. But the dissemination of relevant information for decision-making in relation to...
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abatement investment and taxes when the cost of the environmental regulation varies spatially under uncertainty. It contributes … environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the …
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/non-market (i.e. government regulation, judiciary/legal system) incentives for a firm to act voluntarily on environmental quality is … incentive perceived by the decision maker of firm gets increases. Firms put a higher weight on the impact on regulation and … towards co-regulation, which is practiced by developed countries like Australia and Canada to facilitate businesses to come up …
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way to achieve transportation efficiencies. Other groups, supporting the status quo, argue that the regulation of rates is … options such as these be investigated to address the very thorny issue of freight rate and entry regulation. …
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To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...
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This paper examines the regulation of trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by the World Trade Organization … whether GM and non-GM products are "like goods", whether adequate risk assessment was undertaken for any regulation introduced … technologies are developed. A possible solution is for importing countries with tough GM regulation and mandatory labeling to offer …
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A calibrated model is used to determine the welfare impacts of various regulatory instruments for improving health. The results of a lab experiment are integrated in a partial equilibrium model representing demands for two kinds of fish, one with higher nutritional benefits (canned sardines) and...
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The theory of environmental regulation suggests that economic instruments, such as taxes and tradable permits, create … environmentally appropriate, this suggests that flexible market-based regulation can achieve environmental goals while providing …
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Research on environmental regulation’s effects on economic activity has largely focused on manufacturing, ignoring one …, regulation has become an important criterion in firm location. This article extends the literature on environmental regulation … creates an opportunity to study how environmental regulation affects the location of economic activity, the externality costs …
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