[PDF] Top 20 Three essays in applied regulation

... cap regulation would give firms greater incentives to reduce costs and to innovate, there is no convincing reason why the firms should subsequently reduce prices (in most cases below th e maximum level allowed by ... See full document

... China, three represen- tative samples of households were surveyed, including 8000 migration households in 15 cities 4 , a sample of 8000 rural households in 9 provinces and a sample of 5000 urban households in 9 ... See full document

... without oil deposits have been dropped. This is a further guard against the pos- sibility that oil and non-oil counties might have been on different trends even in the absence of oil discoveries. It is a very demanding ... See full document

... liquidity regulation on the cost of capital for productive firms and hence aggregate ...liquidity regulation can raise the cost of capital, which I term the “crowding out” and “financial repression” ... See full document

... Although the e¤ects of longer (shorter) working hours may …t under the general setting of these three models (DCS, ERI, and ER), they do not explicitly link health and increases (reductions) in working hours. In ... See full document

... the one collected for their mothers, the two surveys supposedly convey similar phe- nomena. For example, to measure the development of cognitive skills, people in the NLSY79 took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude ... See full document

... on the time spent to the next job in the private sector. As usual, Column (1) reports the baseline effect for the sake of comparison. First, I explore geographic differences and I look at the effect of longer potential ... See full document

... In this paper we study the consequences of a home-preschool program that aims to enhance both women’s empowerment and children’s early childhood development. The PelCa (preescolar en la casa – home-pre-schooling) program ... See full document

... This dissertation consists of three chapters that each study one applied microeconomic theory problem. In the first chapter, I consider the problem a social planner faces in constructing a criminal justice ... See full document

... This thesis consists of three independent and unrelated chapters. Each of them rep- resents an area of my research interests. The first chapter of this thesis contributes to the fascinating and growing literature ... See full document

... incomes (see e.g. Berdegue et al., 2001; Lanjouw and Shariff, 2002). This effect is par­ ticularly important in rural areas surrounding the cities. Three concomitant effects may explain such increased ... See full document

... High population density is likely to increase pressure on finite natural resources and results in poor environmental management; and hence, a possible low environmental performance. For instance, high population density ... See full document

... To isolate the casual effect of the policy on illegal trade in timber, I need exoge- nous variation in the implementation of the policy. This is unlikely to hold given that the Act was strongly lobbied by various ... See full document

... Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics Konrad Burchard Burchardi Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science June[.] ... See full document

... to three penalized regression estimators (LASSO, ELASTICNET and RIDGE) and one two-step estimator (named Post-LASSO PPML) capable of optimally selecting resistance ... See full document

... illustration, three counterfactual experiments were carried out: i) elimination and replacement of labour taxes; ii) elimination and replacement of capital taxes; and iii) elimination and replacement of all factor ... See full document

... In order to study the dynamics of this effect, an event study analysis can high- light the degree to which the relationship between Monsoon rainfall and conflict has evolved prior to the introduction of NREGA. The ... See full document

... Competition, Conflict and Institutions Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory Giovanni Ko A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Department of Economics London Sc[.] ... See full document

... Table 13 presents the first stage estimates of equation (2). Each column presents the estimate γ obtained from using a different set of controls, as well as the F-statistic on ln price, which provides a test of ... See full document

... This table reports the summary statistics for the hedge funds in our sample from January 2007-May 2012. Asset_Liq is the estimate of the fund asset liquidity level as measured by Getmansky et al. (2004). Liq_Risk is the ... See full document