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Effects of Regulation on Utility Financing : Theory and Evidence
Taggart, Robert A. - 2008
years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …
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Incomplete Environmental Regulation, Imperfect Competition, and Emissions Leakage
Fowlie, Meredith - 2008
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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Hong Kong'S Business Regulation in Transition
Wu, Changqi; Cheng, Leonard K.H - 2021
. 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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Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets
Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean - 2021
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247433
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Imperfect Markets Versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965429
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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China
Gao, Haoyu; Ru, Hong; Townsend, Robert M.; Yang, Xiaoguang - 2023
Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local banking industrial organisation and its economic consequences. We document a novel trade-off: the potential benefits of deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’...
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Estimating the Impact of Restructuring on Electricity Generation Efficiency : The Case of the Indian Thermal Power Sector
Cropper, Maureen - 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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Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency : Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
For the first four decades of its existence the U.S. nuclear power industry was run by regulated utilities, with most companies owning only one or two reactors. Beginning in the late 1990s electricity markets in many states were deregulated and almost half of the nation's 103 reactors were sold...
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Do Oligopolists Pollute Less? Evidence from a Restructured Electricity Market
Mansur, Erin T. - 2007
regulation took effect. I find that strategic firms reduced their emissions by approximately 20% relative to other firms and …
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Measuring Welfare in Restructured Electricity Markets
Mansur, Erin T. - 2007
Restructuring electricity markets has enabled wholesalers to exercise market power. Using a common method of measuring competitive behavior in these markets, several studies have found substantial inefficiencies. This method overstates actual welfare loss by ignoring production constraints that...
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