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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry - 1997
Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry
Faccio, Mara - 2017
government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …
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Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy : The Role of Market-Based Regulation
Williams, Roberton C, III. - 2010
In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter … paper argues that this change arose at least in part because of a shift in the type of regulation used at the federal level …, from command-and-control regulation toward more incentive-based regulation. Under an incentive-based federal regulation, a …
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Comparing Price and Non-Price Approaches to Urban Water Conservation
Olmstead, Sheila M. - 2008
Urban water conservation is typically achieved through prescriptive regulations, including the rationing of water for particular uses and requirements for the installation of particular technologies. A significant shift has occurred in pollution control regulations toward market-based policies...
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Remedies for Sick Insurance
McFadden, Daniel L. - 2012
This expository paper describes the factors that contribute to failure of health insurance markets, and the regulatory mechanisms that have been and can be used to combat these failures. Standardized contracts and creditable coverage mandates are discussed, along with premium support, enrollment...
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Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security
Shoven, John B. - 2006
Pay-as-you-go Social Security is typically characterized as a universal defined benefit pension program. Implicit in this characterization is a sense that the participant's investment in future benefits is somehow guaranteed, or safe from risk. This study develops the concept of "political risk"...
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Just Starting Out : Learning and Equilibrium in a New Market
Doraszelski, Ulrich - 2016
We document the evolution of the newly created market for frequency response within the UK electricity system over a six-year period. Firms competed in price while facing considerable initial uncertainty about market demand and rival behavior. We show that over time prices stabilized, converging...
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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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Market Effects of Adverse Regulatory Events : Evidence from Drug Relabeling
Higgins, Matthew J. - 2018
We provide causal evidence that regulatory shocks associated with drug safety label changes lead to aggregate demand declines of 16.9 percent within two years of a relabeling event. After accounting for all plausible substitution patterns by physicians along with competitor actions, aggregate...
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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. However, the manager can use her...
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