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The Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century

Gil, Ricard; spiller, pablo t. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We develop a basic framework to understand the organization of highly creative activities. Management faces a fundamental tradeoff in organizing such activities. On the one hand, since creativity cannot be achieved by command and control or by monetary incentives, internal/contractual production...

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Do Markets Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency

Rose, Nancy Lin; Markiewicz, Kira; Wolfram, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004

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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Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

Kerr, William; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We examine the effect of US branch banking deregulations on the entry size of new firms using micro-data from the US Census Bureau. We find that the average entry size for startups did not change following the deregulations. However, among firms that survived at least four years, a greater...

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Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency: The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector

Malik, Kabir; Cropper, Maureen; Limonov, Alexander; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...

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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition

Wu, Changqi; Cheng, Leonard K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

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 …

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Antitrust and Regulation

Carlton, Dennis W.; Picker, Randal C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests …, but specified prices and rules of mandatory dealing. Antitrust promoted competition without favoring special interests … control of competition to courts and regulatory agencies based on their relative strengths. Antitrust also can act as a …

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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization: The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005

Gronau, Reuben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

An important part of the literature on regulatory economics is based on the US experience, where a well-established regulator faces a privately owned monopoly. It is sometimes forgotten that this model does not apply in many places where a newly established regulator faces a government owned, or...

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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....

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The Redistributional Impact of Non-linear Electricity Pricing

Borenstein, Severin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Utility regulators frequently focus as much or more on the distributional impact of electric rate structures as on their efficiency. The goal of protecting low-income consumers has become more central with recent increases in wholesale power costs and anticipation of significant costs of...

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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but...

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