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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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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …
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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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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States
Gittleman, Maury; Kleiner, Morris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....
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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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Subways, Strikes, and Slowdowns: The Impacts of Public Transit on Traffic Congestion
Anderson, Michael L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Public transit accounts for only 1% of U.S. passenger miles traveled but nevertheless attracts strong public support. Using a simple choice model, we predict that transit riders are likely to be individuals who commute along routes with the most severe roadway delays. These individuals' choices...
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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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The Redistributional Impact of Non-linear Electricity Pricing
Borenstein, Severin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Utility regulators frequently focus as much or more on the distributional impact of electric rate structures as on their efficiency. The goal of protecting low-income consumers has become more central with recent increases in wholesale power costs and anticipation of significant costs of...
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Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P.; Knittel, Christopher R.; Hughes, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies currently in use: ethanol subsidies, a renewable fuel standard (RFS),...
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Cross-National Evidence on Generic Pharmaceuticals: Pharmacy vs. Physician-Driven Markets
Danzon, Patricia M.; Furukawa, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper examines the role of regulation and competition in generic markets. Generics offer large potential savings …
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