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French water school"": the organization of the sector, the public service nature of the activities and the regulation system …
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This paper explores the effects of effluent regulatory activity on firm behavior in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario. The model uses instrumental variables to attempt to distinguish between that correlation between emission limits and emissions coming from regulatory capture and that...
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In this paper, we develop a method to quantify the importance of regulation and market structure on the success of … impact of allowing a single foreign telecom provider to enter Tunisia. If the regulation environment guarantees competition …
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This paper investigates the relative ability of two anti-smoking policies, taxes and regulation, in inducing cigarette ….28), but not to regulation, while the converse is true for the proportion of smokers in the population. This suggests that both …
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competitors, and finally we comment on the above interventions in light of the economic theory of regulation and the theory of …
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reveals the name of plants which are either not complying with the regulation or are of concern to the regulator …. Simultaneously however, the regulator continues to undertake legal action for those violating the regulation. Previous analyses have …
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It has been observed that upon trading-off the costs and benefits of pollution control, profit-maximizing firms may choose not to invest their resources in pollution abatement since the expected penalty imposed by regulators falls considerably short of the investment costs. Regulators have...
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We consider a firm that must undergo a costly and time-consuming regulatory process before making an irreversible, lagged investment whose value varies randomly. We analyze two cases: regulatory approval is valid forever or it expires after some time. We apply our model to Hydro Québec's...
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