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A Proposal to Promote Local Competition: The LoopCo Plan

Morris, Roy - EconWPA - 1998

The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...

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Reformas Regulatórias e Reestruturação no Setor Elétrico

Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005

The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in the wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California’s electricity sector. A necessary first step in determining the lessons learned from the California electricity crisis is a...

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Reformas Regulatórias e Reestruturação no Setor Elétrico

Pinto, Bruno José Marques - EconWPA - 2005

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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica

Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004

-level regulation will likely make any type of collusion or capture more difficult in the future. …

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Wages, Alcohol Use, and Smoking: Simultaneous Estimates

Auld, M. Christopher - EconWPA - 1998

employed Canadian men. The results indicate that sample selection into alcohol and tobacco use is not negligible. With all else …

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Manipulated, Misled, Ignored, Abused: Residential Consumer Experience with Electric Deregulation in the United Kingdom

Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2004

jumped after deregulation, and new types of complaints such as unauthorized switching of service (“slamming”) arose. Failure … existing customer base. Higher prices for low- income consumers: Since deregulation begain in 1990, there has been a marked … lead us to recommend against implementing plans to replace traditional regulation with “retail competition” for consumers …

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Stochastic programming in energy

Wallace, Stein W.; Fleten, Stein-Erik - EconWPA - 2002

both traditional cost minimization models and newer models that reflect industry deregulation processes. The oldest …

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From Financial Liberalization to Banking Failure: Starting on the Wrong Foot?

Fischer, Klaus P.; Smaoui, Houcem - EconWPA - 1997

In this paper we attempt to identify the characteristics of banks that are most likely to be at the origin of a banking crisis following a financial liberalization (FL) process. We do this analysis in response to the observed fact that FL processes arse often followed by banking crisis that cost...

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Single-desk marketing: assessing the economic arguments

Gropp, Lisa; Hallam, Tom; Manion, Vince - EconWPA - 2002

Single-Desk Marketing: Assessing the Economic Arguments identifies the potential benefits and costs and the strengths and weakness of various arguments in favour of current single-desk arrangements. It does not attempt to quantify the costs and benefits of arrangements in any particular industry.

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Does Inefficiency Justify Privatization? The Case of Intermediate Industry Monopolies

Glomm, Gerhard; Mendez, Fabio - EconWPA - 2005

We use an infinitely lived agent model in which an intermediate good is provided either by a public or a private monopolist to study the effects of privatization on steady state levels of income. We allow for public sector inefficiencies(x-inefficiency) which shift down the intermediate goods...

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