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years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …
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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 …
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. 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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Despite all of the talk about deregulation' of the electricity sector, a large number of non-market mechanisms have been imposed on emerging competitive wholesale and retail markets. These mechanisms include spot market price caps, operating reserve requirements, non-price rationing protocols,...
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This paper measures changes in electricity generation costs caused by the introduction of market mechanisms to determine output decisions in service areas that were previously using command-and-control-type operations. I use the staggered transition to markets from 1999- 2012 to evaluate the...
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quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …
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We provide causal evidence that regulation induced product shocks significantly impact aggregate demand and firm … receiving expedited review are more likely to suffer from regulation induced product shocks. Thus, it appears we may be trading …
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Regulations aimed at curbing the entry of large retail stores have been introduced in many countries to protect independent retailers. Analyzing a planning reform launched in the United Kingdom in the 1990s, I show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers...
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. However, the manager can use her...
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The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …-prudential regimes internationally. For such regulation to be effective in controlling the aggregate supply of credit it must be the case …
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