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

Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …

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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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What Are We Not Doing When We're Online

Wallsten, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

The Internet has radically transformed the way we live our lives. The net changes in consumer surplus and economic …

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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access

Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

experiments were important for value creation in Internet access markets. In general, industry-wide returns from economic …

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Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption

Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001 led potential customers...

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Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry

Moser, Petra; Lampe, Ryan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Members of a patent pool agree to use a set of patents as if they were jointly owned by all members and license them as a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce litigation risks for their members and lower license fees and...

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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

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

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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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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

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

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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition

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

. 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 …

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