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Benchmarking container port technical efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean
Morales Sarriera, Javier; Serebrisky, Tomás; … - 2013
We developed a technical efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier model. We employed a 10-year panel with data on container throughput, port terminal area, berth length, and number of available cranes in 63 ports. The...
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When it comes to container port efficiency, are all developing regions equal?
Suárez-Alemán, Ancor; Morales Sarriera, Javier; … - 2015
This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using both parametric and nonparametric approaches. From a unique dataset -our sample covers 70 developing countries, 203 ports, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of...
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Digital platforms and antitrust
Parker, Geoffrey; Petropoulos, Georgios; Van Alstyne, … - 2020
market competition and regulation in addressing these concerns. Traditional (ex-post) antitrust intervention will be less …
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Monopolistic screening under learning by doing
Gärtner, Dennis - 2007
all, in a sense to be made precise. -- Asymmetric Information ; Learning by Doing ; Regulation …
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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
account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of …
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...
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Accountability in government and regulatory policies : theory and evidence
Guerriero, Carmine - 2008
; Agency ; Judges ; Regulation ; Electricity …
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On regulation and competition : pros and cons of a diversified monopolist
Scarpa, Carlo; Calzolari, Giacomo - 2009 - This version: June 2009
We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated … (with price and quantity competition) and optimal regulation that involves an informational externality to the competitors …. Although joint conduct of the activities generates scope economies, it also entails private information, so that regulation is …
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Influential news and policy-making
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
directly harm the voter, but those that do so slightly can be wasteful of public resources. Regulation produced by politicians …
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Investment size and firm's value under profit sharing regulation
Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2003
In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm's investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm's start-up decision relative to a pure price cap...
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