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Regulatory independence and political interference : evidence from EU mixed-ownership utilities’ investment and debt
Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura - 2010 - This draft: 11 May 2010
This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into … independence matters for both investment and financial decisions. Investment increases under an Independent Regulatory Agency (IRA … privately controlled. Finally political orientation does matter, as firm investment increases under more conservative (pro …
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Infrastructure quality in deregulated industries : is there an underinvestment problem
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than … market can sometimes improve incentives. With suitable non-linear access prices investment incentives under separation become … identical to those under integration. -- investment incentives ; networks ; quality ; vertical externality …
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On rate base dynamics in public utility regulation
Patrick, Robert H. - 1988 - rev
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Restructuring Italian utility markets : household distributional effects
Miniaci, Raffaela (contributor); Scarpa, Carlo (contributor) - 2005
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Provision of public goods in a federalist country : Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...
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Capital structure and regulation : does ownership matter?
Bortolotti, Bernardo; Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2007
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Consumers' attitudes on services of general interest in the EU : accessibility, price and quality 2000 - 2004
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo; Salini, Silvia; … - 2007
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Does energy consumption respond to price shocks? : evidence from a regression-discontinuity design
Bastos, Paulo; Castro, Lucio; Cristia, Julian; … - 2011
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Tax competition and the efficiency of 'benefit-related' business taxes
Gugl, Elisabeth; Zodrow, George R. - 2015
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Can bottom-up institutional reform improve service delivery?
Molina, Ezequiel - 2014
This article makes three contributions to the literature. First, it provides new evidence of the impact of community monitoring interventions using a unique dataset from the Citizen Visible Audit (CVA) program in Colombia. In particular, this article studies the effect of social audits on...
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