Franchise Contract Regulations and Local Market Structure

Environmental Regulations and Economic Activity: Influence on Market Structure

We survey recent developments in the theoretical and empirical literature on the economic effects of environmental regulation on various aspects of market structure including entry, exit and size distribution of firms and market concentration.

Network Regulations and Market Entry

This paper uses a two-sided market model to study if lastmile access providers (ISPs), should charge content providers (CPs), who derive revenue from advertisers, for the right to access ISP’s end-users. We compare two-sided pricing (ISPs could charge CPs for content delivery) with one-sided pricing (neutrality regulations prohibit such charges). Our analysis indicates that number of CPs is low...

Contract Market Viability

Working Papers CREDIT MARKET REGULATIONS CHANGES AND LABOR MARKET DECISIONS

In this paper, we examine whether the imperfections in the credit market spill over to the labor market. We examine the case of a country that experienced a very high degree of imperfections in the financial markets, but underwent substantial changes in 1992 due to the liberalization brought by the European unification and other institutional changes. Italy is therefore a good laboratory to stu...

Market Structure and Price Adjustment in the Iranian Tea Market