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Effects of Regulation on Utility Financing : Theory and Evidence

Taggart, Robert A, Jr - 1982

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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Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets

Joskow, Paul L. - 2004

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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Hong Kong's Business Regulation in Transition

Wu, Changqi - 1997

. 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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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...

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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...

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Can at Scale Drug Provision Improve the Health of the Targeted in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2017

The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Many supply- and demand-side factors in sub-Saharan Africa could cause smaller than expected epidemiological effects of this at scale drug provision. We provide...

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Prices and Supply Disruptions during Natural Disasters

Cavallo, Alberto - 2013

We study the daily behavior of supermarket prices and product availability following two recent natural disasters: the 2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on product availability. The number of goods available for...

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Social Fragmentation, Public Goods and Elections : Evidence from China

Miquel, Gerard Padro i - 2012

This study examines how the economic effects of elections in rural China depend on voter heterogeneity, for which we proxy with religious fractionalization. We first document religious composition and the introduction of village-level elections for a nearly nationally representative sample of...

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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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