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make the situation worse, an impact assessment analysis should accompany every law and every regulation of every Ministry …
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Electricity restructuring has created the opportunity for producers to exercise market power. Oligopolists increase … implications of production inefficiencies attributed to market power in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland electricity … market. Air pollution fell substantially during 1999, the year in which both electricity restructuring and new environmental …
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residential electricity market, we document evidence of consumer inertia. We estimate an econometric model of retail choice to …
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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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Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...
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industries subject to residual price regulation. Our empirical analyses demonstrate how the mechanism can be used to fulfill the …
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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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This paper evaluates the importance of property rights institutions', which protect citizens against expropriation by the government and powerful elites, and contracting institutions', which enable private contracts between citizens. We exploit exogenous variation in both types of institutions...
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We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in … 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low …. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity consumption than homes of earlier vintages because the price of …
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We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
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