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We develop a dynamic model to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency risk. The model features endogenous capital structure, liquid asset holdings, payout, and default decisions. In the model, banks face taxation, flotation costs of securities, and default...
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The development of cable and satellite television has not occurred as rapidly in the United Kingdom as initially anticipated. The paper examines cable and satellite policy in the context of the Peacock Report's proposals for broadcasting reform. The concept of a national telecommunications grid...
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The regulation of commercial television and broadcasting in the United Kingdom has evolved from the principles of … public service broadcasting. Much of this regulation is paternalistic and does not place great emphasis on the most effective … regulation in the light of the recent recommendations of the Peacock Committee. In particular, the objectives of broadcasting are …
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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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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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measures to restore competition and stability--including, in particular, those recommended for the UK by the Independent …
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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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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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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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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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