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More than 'pretend competition' in German telecommunications

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2004

In a globally networked economy, the telecommunications sector – which was long in the hands of a state-run company – must not close its eyes to competition. All the same, Germany was late in starting to deregulate the industry and so far has concentrated more on competition among service...

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Creating Markets for Biodiversity: A Case Study of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd

Aretino, Barbara; Holland, Paula; Peterson, Deborah; … - EconWPA - 2001

This papers examines the activities and operations of the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Earth Sanctuaries Ltd (ESL) is the first publicly listed company in Australia with wildlife conservation as its primary goal. Its focus to date is...

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Price Effects of Regulation: Telecommunications, Air Passenger Transport and Electricity Supply

Doove, Samanatha; Gabbitas, Owen; Nguyen-Hong, Duc; … - EconWPA - 2001

Price Effects of Regulation draws on research undertaken at the OECD to quantify the effects of domestic regulatory …

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Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Regulations

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

. Its recommendations seek to increase landholder confidence in natural resource planning and regulation, without …

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Welfare Economics of Land Use Regulation

Cheshire, Paul; Sheppard, Stephen - EconWPA - 1997

Despite the pervasive nature of land use planning and land use regulation, evaluation of the costs and benefits of …

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A new paradigm of economic regulation

Svetlov, Nikolai - EconWPA - 2003

macroeconomic stability, but they do not sufficiently facilitate long-term aims of human being. A method of soft economic regulation …

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Cost recovery by Government agencies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

The Commonwealth Government asked the Productivity Commisison to review cost recovery arrangements across the Government's regulatory,administrative and information agencies,and to develop guidelines for the future application of cost recovery.

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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests

Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004

The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for … regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can lead to win-win situations, in which social welfare as well as the … private net benefits of firms operating under such regulation can be increased. This paper analyses the Porter hypothesis with …

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What If? A Look at Integrity Pacts

Abramo, Claudio Weber - EconWPA - 2003

This note examines the Integrity Pact (IP) methodology proposed by Transparency International to confront the problem of corruption in public procurement. The examination draws from a decision model for participants developed elsewhere, in which the critical elements are shown to be the...

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Price-Capping Regulation as a Protectionist Strategy in Developing Countries

Lawrence, Peter; Mukherjee, Arijit - EconWPA - 2002

possible for the profit of the incumbent to be greater under regulation which deters entry than under unregulated duopoly …. Counter-intuitively, we further discover that lobbying for regulation is to be expected where the incumbent firm is relatively …

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