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Does Regulation Trade Off Quality Against Inequality? The Case of German Architects and Construction Engineers

Rostam‐Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2021

We exploit an exogenous price increase of 10 per cent for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006–2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8...

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Does regulation trade-off quality against inequality? : The case of German architects and construction engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

We exploit an exogenous price increase by about 10% for architectural services to answer the question how price regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years 2006 to 2012, we find a significant reform effect of 8%...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907108

Does regulation trade-off quality against inequality? : the case of German architects and construction engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

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Labor Responses, Regulation and Business Churn

Aloi, Marta - 2019

We develop a model of sluggish firm entry to explain short-run labor responses to technology shocks. We show that the labor response to technology and its persistence depend on the degree of returns to labor and the rate of firm entry. Existing empirical results support our theory based on...

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Labor responses, regulation and business churn

Aloi, Marta; Dixon, Huw; Savagar, Anthony - 2018

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How Regulatory Reforms in Sweden have boosted Productivity

Erlandsen, Espen - 2007

The economic crisis in the early 1990s prompted action on reforming the Swedish welfare state and its institutions, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. In that way, Sweden took early action compared to other OECD countries currently struggling with how to make public...

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Market structure in Bitcoin mining

Ma, June; Gans, Joshua; Tourky, Rabee - 2018

resource use highlighting the importance of identifying the benefits of competition for the operation of the blockchain …

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Competition and regulation in a differentiated good market

Fiocco, Raffaele - 2011

This paper addresses the issue of how to design the institutional structure of an industry which provides two differentiated products. One good is supplied by a regulated monopoly and the other is produced in a competitive (unregulated) segment. Two possible institutional patterns are compared....

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From Competition to Regulation : New Zealand Telecommunications Sector Performance 1987-2007

Howell, Bronwyn E. - 2008

under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to … incurred in the deployment of new applications and technologies relative to the competition law regime as participants engage … predominantly upon competition law appears to have outperformed the industry-specific regulatory regime, albeit due in large part to …

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Competition in Retail Electricity Markets : An Assessment of Ten Year Dutch Experience

Mulder, Machiel - 2016

This paper examines a decade of retail competition in the Dutch electricity market and discusses market structure …, but it can also indicate a strategic product differentiation to soften price competition. Although slightly downward …

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