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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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When Do Firms Go Green? Comparing Command and Control Regulations with Price Incentives in India
Harrison, Ann E. - 2015
There are two commonly accepted views about command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulation. First, CAC delivers …
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Three Myths About Federal Regulation
McLaughlin, Patrick A.; Mulligan, Casey B. - 2021
Despite evidence to the contrary, three common myths persist about federal regulations. The first myth is that many regulations concern the environment, but in fact only a small minority of regulations are environmental. The second myth is that most regulations contain quantitative estimates of...
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Price Limits in a Tradable Performance Standard
Wang, Banban; Pizer, Billy; Munnings, Clayton - 2022
Tradable performance standards are widely used sectoral regulatory policies. Examples include the US lead phasedown, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and—most recently—China’s new national carbon market. At the same time,...
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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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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021
Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation : Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s
Greenstein, Shane M.; Mazzeo, Michael J. - 2021
' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
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The Power of TV : Cable Television and Women's Status in India
Oster, Emily F. - 2008
Cable and satellite television have grown rapidly throughout the developing world. The availability of cable and satellite television exposes viewers to new information about the outside world, which may affect individual attitudes and behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the...
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The Consumer Gains from Direct Broadcast Satellites and the Competition with Cable Television
Goolsbee, Austan; Petrin, Amil - 2021
important issue in the debate over re-regulation of cable prices. We estimate a consumer level demand system for satellite …
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Misinformation During a Pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020
Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality — not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We...
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