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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556251
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561376
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Competition Policy for Natural Monopolies in a Developing Market Economy
Ordover, Janusz; Pittman, Russell; Clyde, Paul - EconWPA - 2001
West, some "natural monopoly" sectors will require continued regulation to protect consumers from monopoly abuses. This … paper focuses on three aspects of the design of regulatory policy in these countries: the appropriate sectors for regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561393
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Political renegotiation of regulatory contracts
Aubert, Cecile; Laffont, Jean- Jacques - EconWPA - 2005
Governmental contracts may be renegotiated after political changes. Current governments can anticipate this and strategically distort contracts to influence renegotiation outcomes. In this sequential common agency game, the initial contract impacts elements of the renegotiation process: outside...
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Restructuring the Polish Railway for Competition
Ordover, Janusz; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
The Polish government is considering methods of the privatizing and possible restructuring of the Polish National Railway, PKP, that would improve the efficiency of the railroad while creating some form of competition in order to prevent monopoly pricing. Traditional intramodal competition is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412942
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413213
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The Uneasy Case for the Flat Tax
Buckley, Francis; Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 1999
There is a secret paradox at the heart of social contract theories. Such theories assume that, because personal security and private property are at risk in a state of nature, subjects will agree to grant Leviathan a monopoly of violence. But what is to prevent Leviathan from turning on his...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076588
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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico
Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997
. Also, it focus on spectrum policy allocation and the role of the new antitrust authority and the specialized regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076639
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Understanding Regulatory Environments and their Impact on Economic Change
James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002
, conduct, and attribute regulation. The standard we use to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of regulations creating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076905
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SIZE AND HETEROGENEITY MATTER. A MICROSTRUCTURE-BASED ANALYSIS OF REGULATION OF SECONDARY MARKETS FOR GOVERNMENT BONDS.
Martinez-Resano, J. Ramon - EconWPA - 2005
analyzed from this perspective. Government bond regulation is argued to necessarily depart from ordinary approaches also … discusses repo and short-selling regulation in government bond markets. The atypical market structure and the multi- agency … competition, integrative infrastructure and basic systemic protections as over-arching principles for regulation is consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134902