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Antitrust and Regulation
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 activity, however, are difficult to measure because some online activities, such as obtaining news, are new ways of doing old activities while new activities, like social media,...
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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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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane Mitchell - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...
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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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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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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
. 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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