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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Market regulation"”.
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
This dissertation studies the effects of price regulation on the entry, exit and pricing decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price …
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Essays on household finance and credit market regulation
… finance and regulatory policy in consumer credit markets. The first chapter studies the efficiency and distributional effects of credit card pricing restrictions in the 2009 Credit CARD Act. I document how two forces drive these restrictions' effects: first, the Act constrains lenders from …
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Essays on the political economy of labor market regulation
The stringency of employment protection regulations varies substantially across countries. This thesis studies three mechanisms that can help explain the extent and persistence of this variation. The first chapter explores the ability of employment protection to generate its own political support. …
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Flexible bureaucracies : discretion, creativity, and accountability in labor market regulation and public sector management
This dissertation is about state bureaucracies and the conditions under which they learn, innovate, and play a positive role in social and economic development. It takes issue with the extant literature on the topic, which has either looked at such organizations from the outside and prescribed the …
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The privatisation and liberalisation of telecommunications in Bahrain.
… competition into the telecommunications market can promote the economic goals of the government such as increasing the private sector participation in the sustainable development of a modernised economy. This study has shown that there is a direct correlation between the competitiveness …
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National approaches to consumer protection in France and Germany, 1970-1990
This research investigates the growth of product market regulation in France and Germany from 1970 to 1990. It finds that these countries have pursued divergent strategies for regulating their domestic product markets. France has treated consumers as citizens, granting them special political …
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act, insider trading and earnings management
… is the increasing importance of financial market’s regulation pursuant of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX). There is currently incomplete knowledge on the relationship between insider trading and earnings management on the one hand and earnings management and firm performance on the …
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Industrial organization of housing supply : explaining spatial variation of home builder size in U.S.
The housing supply is affected by the market, regulation, land use, and capital. Research has revealed a strong variation between the supply sector and builders' behavior patterns. Understanding these variations will contribute not only to better performance of private homebuilders, but also to …
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Trucking country : food politics and the transformation of rural life in Postwar America
… a postwar framework of anti-statism, minimal market regulation, and fierce individualism. Trucking and rural truck drivers were at the heart of what I call the "marketing machine," a new kind of food economy that arose after World War II, characterized by decentralized food processors and …
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Discursive strategies within Thatcherism: family and market representations in its rhetoric and Community Care Documents
… mythical representations of the family, the free market and the community. The argument of the thesis is that the construction of meaning in the policy documents is at least partially supported by discursive representations present in the public discourse. These representations mythologize: first, …
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From shared competences to institutional heteronomy. The constitutional architecture of supranationally structured market supervision
… role in the institutional organisation of market supervision, by either creating new supranational supervisory bodies or by circumscribing Member States autonomy in designing national supervisory authorities. European Union law draws particularly volatile legal boundaries that create a …
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"Millions of Luxurious Citizens": Consumption and Citizenship in the Urban Northeast, 1800-1865
… Through discussions over taxation, tariff and market regulation, middle-class men and women struggled to define their civic rights and obligations as consumers in a capitalist democracy. As they began to imagine their civic identity more in terms of their capacity as consumers rather than …
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Essays in macroeconomics and housing
… directly and indirectly, prices in the rental market almost entirely command the shelter component of CPI, which weighs around 30\%\ in the overall index. When we take these two pieces into account and use CPI net of shelter services as a measure of inflation, we obtain impulse responses of …
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Hidrogênio verde: proposta de diretrizes para o desenvolvimento do mercado
… to a conflict between supply and demand of the market. In a context where decarbonization options are limited, green hydrogen (H2V), considered the central pillar of decarbonization of the economy, has emerged as a critical option to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in sectors that are difficult …
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Essays on financial market regulatory frameworks and financial inclusion
This dissertation examined how financial market regulation influences credit supply and pricing in segmented and underserved markets, with particular focus on non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs). The study explored a key policy dilemma: while regulation aims …
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Modeling mining economics and materials markets to inform criticality assessment and mitigation
… to model the behavior and dynamics of materials markets. Grounded on economic theory, the model also draws upon the characteristics of mining economics and market imperfections, while offering a flexible structure adaptable to different markets and requiring few inputs. The m:5 model has been …
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Contemporary land use policy in Quito : towards a more equitable approach
… communities, questions of governance, aspects of market regulation- among other concerns- continue to persist. To deepen equitability in land policy making, I argue that, in addition to ensuring strong implementation of recent policies, a more comprehensive notion of equitability must be embraced …
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The effects of foreign entry in banking sectors of transitional economies : The case of Slovakia
… Moreover, the organisation of financial markets, bank supervision and regulation as well as legal infrastructure, state influence and past experience plays a significant role in shaping domestic banks' behaviour. The research results have not supported the view that the opening of …
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Testing Alternative Versions of the Fama-French Five-Factor Model: Evidence from Chinese Non-Financial Firms
… the Fama-French model within the Chinese stock market. While the Fama-French model is extensively used in asset pricing, its performance in emerging markets like China remains insufficiently explored. The Chinese stock market is characterized by unique features such as the prevalence of …
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The social bases of climate skepticism: Risk perception, ideology, and the creation of carbon publics
… an ideological framework equating environmental regulation with attacks on free markets, refusing to accept scientific authority as a legitimate form of expertise regulating market activity. Likewise, conservative politicians equate hydrocarbon energy with the creation of wealth itself, …
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