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Do Citizens Want the Truth about Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
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Information Disclosure Policy : Do States' Data Processing Efforts Help More than the Information Disclosure Itself?
Bae, Hyunhoe - 2008
The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) was expected to reduce health risks stemming from emissions of hazardous chemicals by increasing public pressure on polluters. However, it is a massive and complex dataset, requiring significant expertise to interpret in its raw form. State governments have...
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China’s Industrial Policy : an Empirical Evaluation
Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019
evaluate its welfare consequences. This paper examines an important industrial policy in China in the 2000s, aiming to propel … model of firm entry, exit, investment, and production, we find that the scale of the policy was massive and boosted China …
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Growth Policy, Agglomeration, and (the Lack of) Competition
Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2016
Industrial clusters are promoted by policy and generally viewed as good for growth and development, but both clusters and policies may also enable non-competitive behavior. This paper studies the presence of non-competitive pricing in geographic industrial clusters. We develop, validate, and...
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Mild Government Failure
Wei, Shang-jin; Xu, Jianhuan; Yin, Ge; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
- can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro …
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Picking Winners? Government Subsidies and Firm Productivity in China
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei; Ren, Mengjia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
subsidies provided to China's publicly traded firms. We categorize subsidies into different types. We then estimate total … suggest that China's increasingly prescriptive industrial policies may have generated limited effects in promoting …
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Does "Made in China 2025" Work for China? : Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Branstetter, Lee; Li, Guangwei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Rising concern over the impact of Chinese industrial policy has led to severe trade tensions between China and some of … its major trading partners. In recent years, foreign criticism has increasingly focused on the so-called "Made in China …-in-differences approach to examine how the "Made in China 2025" policy initiative has impacted firms' receipt of subsidies, R&D expenditure …
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The Structure and Conduct of Corporate Lobbying : How Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission
de Figueiredo, John M. - 2000
lobbying (internal organization vs. trade association) by firms in administrative agencies. It explores the power and limitations of the collective action theories and transaction cost theories in explaining lobbying. It introduces a dataset of over 900 lobbying contacts cover 101 issues at the...
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Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2004
This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition, the sharing rules now in place reduce incentives...
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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry - 1997
Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary spending limits, Congress is unable to increase general taxes to pay for social programs and thus funds these programs from taxes on specific sectors of the economy. In this paper I...
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