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firms by estimating the effect of the pre-deregulation level of" leverage on the survival of trucking firms after the Carter … deregulation. Highly leveraged" carriers are less likely to survive the deregulation shock, even after controlling for various … charge after deregulation. " …
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We investigate how the contractibility of actions affecting the value of an asset affects asset ownership. We examine this by testing how on-board computer (OBC) adoption affects truck ownership. We develop and test the proposition that adoption should lead to less ownership by drivers,...
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U.S. airlines have lost nearly $60 billion (2009 dollars) in domestic markets since deregulation, most of it in the … that challenges the economics of deregulation. I examine some of the most common explanations among industry participants …
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This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
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timing of bank deregulation, we evaluate the impact of liberalizing intrastate branching restrictions on the distribution of … income. We find that branch deregulation significantly reduced income inequality by boosting the incomes of lower income …
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While neoclassical models assume static cost-minimization by firms, agency models suggest that firms may not minimize costs in less-competitive or regulated environments. We test this using a transition from cost-of-service regulation to market-oriented environments for many U.S. electric...
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The success of deregulation in creating a viable private rail freight system in the ?U.S. since 1979 is relatively … undisputed. Deregulation has proceeded in three ways: (i) eased rate setting restrictions; (ii) simplified merger applications … of deregulation on rail costs from those directly attributable to mergers and acquisitions. We employ a translog variable …
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Prior to the 1990s, most electricity customers in the U.S. were served by regulated, vertically-integrated, monopoly utilities that handled electricity generation, transmission, local distribution and billing/collections. Regulators set retail electricity prices to allow the utility to recover...
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techniques relative to matched plants that were not subject to any regulatory change. Deregulation also led to a shift toward …
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markets. Deregulation has been accompanied by substantial market consolidation and today the three largest companies control … more than one-third of all U.S. nuclear capacity. We find that deregulation and consolidation are associated with a 10 …
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