following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …

For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … regulated producers are less polluting than their unregulated ounterparts, emissions under incomplete regulation can exceed the … level of emissions that would have occurred in the absence of regulation. Converseley, when regulated firms are relatively …

. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the …

years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

costs in less-competitive or regulated environments. We test this using a transition from cost-of-service regulation to …