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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico
Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997
This paper addresses the recent Mexico experience in the opening to competition in networks infrastructure mainly in the telecommunications sector. In spite of deregulation and privatization policies in the recent past, there are threats from regulatory failures which create obstacles in the...
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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Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation
Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003
. To get needed, radical changes in radio regulation, much more attention should be directed toward central issues of … that can revolutionize radio regulation. Bringing this knowledge to life in the field of radio regulation involves asking … three questions. First, what is a good separation and balance of powers in radio regulation? Second, how should radio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126024
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126025
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Macroeconomic evolution after a shock: the role for financial intermediation
Vinogradov, Dmitri - EconWPA - 2003
An overlapping generations model with two production factors and two types of agents is considered in presence of …nancial intermediation. The research focuses at the analysis of the consequences of a suddain negative production shock on a …nancial intermediation capacities and consequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126268
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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s
Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003
An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126336
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126483
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Regulation, Competition and Liberalization
Armstrong, Mark; Sappington, David - EconWPA - 2005
In many countries throughout the world, regulators are struggling to determine whether and how to introduce competition into regulated industries. This essay examines the complexities involved in the liberalization process. While stressing the importance of case-specific analyses, this essay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134413
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Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies
Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134435
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134444