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Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. The reductions in new supply don't appear to reflect a real lack of land, but instead reflect a response to man-made restrictions on development. In this...
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The beginning of federal communications regulatory policy was the Post Roads Act of 1886. So spoke the Federal Communications Commission on its Silver Anniversary.It's 1866. The Civil War is over. Western Union has won. Southern telegraph competition had been turned into tree tinsel. A grateful...
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regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …
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Over the past 30 years, eastern Massachusetts has seen a remarkable combination of rising home prices and declining supply of new homes. The reductions in new supply don't appear to reflect a real lack of land, but instead reflect a response to man-made restrictions on development. In this...
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regulated to reverse course and deregulate to any significant extent. Moreover, regulation in most large coastal markets …
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potential for exploiting the poor. Expecting microcredit organizations to exercise self-restraint and self-regulation is naively … optimistic and will not work. Regulation is needed to protect the microcredit clients in three areas: transparency, interest rate …
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Land regulations have a major impact on economic development, especially in agrarian societies, and they continue to affect the efficiency of the rural economy when economies further develop. This paper aims to give an overview of the regulations that are present in the land market in the EU...
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In August of 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) set new less restrictive guidelines for direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements by pharmaceutical companies. I examine the common stock price reaction of pharmaceutical companies following the announcement of new FDA guidelines on...
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The Productivity Commission has released two companion reports, benchmarking business regulation across jurisdictions …: one on the Quantity and Quality of Regulation, the other on the Cost of Business Registrations.This is the second report … regulation across jurisdictions. They have also served to test the usefulness of different survey techniques and benchmarking …
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