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The Theory of Access Pricing: an Overview for Infrastructure Regulators

Estache, Antonio; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The paper provides policymakers and regulators with an overview of the more relevant theoretical issues related to the pricing of access to ensure that the political debate around practical concerns is solidly grounded. The paper discusses in detail the importance of access pricing in the...

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Strategic Choice of Financing Systems in Regulated and Interconnected Industries

Bassanini, Anna; Pouyet, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

The growing importance of inter-network exchanges in infrastructure-based utilities influences regulatory choices and access-pricing for downstream services using the networks. We analyse this problem in a setting where the infrastructure managers of two bordering countries are in charge of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124171

Effect of Regulatory Constraints on Fund Performance: New Evidence from UCITS Hedge Funds

Joenväärä, Juha; Kosowski, Robert - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We economically motivate and then test a range of hypotheses regarding performance and risk differences between UCITS-compliant and other hedge funds. The latter exhibit more suspicious return patterns than do absolute return UCITS (ARUs), but ARUs exhibit higher levels of operational risk. We...

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Investment and capital structure of partially private regulated firms

Cambini, Carlo; Spiegel, Yossi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that incorporates two key institutional features of the public utilities sector in many countries: firms are partially owned by the state and regulators are not necessarily...

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When bigger isn’t better: Bail outs and bank behaviour

Li, Han Hao; Miller, Marcus; Zhang, Lei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The traditional theory of commercial banking explains maturity transformation and liquidity provision assuming no asymmetric information and no excess profits. It captures the possibility of bank runs and business cycle risk; but it ignores the moral hazard problems connected with risk-taking by...

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Regulation, Privatization, and Airport Charges: Panel Data Evidence from European Airports

Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Clougherty, Joseph A.; Mueller, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

main empirical results indicate that aeronautical charges are lower at airports when single-till regulation is employed …, when airports are privatized, and -- tentatively -- when ex-post price regulation is applied. Furthermore, hub airports … generally set higher aeronautical charges, and it appears that price-cap regulation and the presence of nearby airports do not …

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Effects of Deregulation and Vertical Unbundling on the Performance of China's Electricity Generation Sector

Gao, Hang; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study whether the 2002 deregulation and vertical unbundling of the Chinese electricity sector has boosted productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and for firm-fixed effects, we find deregulation to be...

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Assessing the impact of Mali’s water privatization across stakeholders

Estache, Antonio; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper offers a unique quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization experience in Mali among labor, investors, intermediate input providers, users and taxpayers. The assessment is based on indicator duality and production theory. The paper shows that...

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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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Securitization and Compensation in Financial Institutions

Inderst, Roman; Pfeil, Sebastian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyze the interaction between financial institutions' internal compensation policy, the quality of loans, and their securitization decision. We also assess the case for requiring financial institutions to defer bonus pay so as to make incentives more commensurate with the longer-term risk...

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