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Price and Profit Regulation in Developing and Transition Economies, Methods Used and Problems Faced: A Survey of the Regulators
Kirkpatrick, Colin; Parker, David; Zhang, Yin-Fang - 2004
Rate of return or cost of service regulation was the traditional means by which governments, especially in the USA, regulated profitability and prices in privately-owned public utility businesses. However, rate of return regulation was associated with efficiency disincentives. Hence, in 1983...
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Infrastructure investment in network industries: The role of incentive regulation and regulatory independence
Egert, Balazs - 2009
This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment. Yet, previous empirical work has...
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DETERMINAÇÃO DA TARIFA DE REUSO DE ÁGUA NO DISTRITO INDUSTRIAL DE FORTALEZA SOB A ÓTICA DO CUSTO MARGINAL DE LONGO PRAZO E DO MÉTODO DE AVALIAÇÃO CONTINGENTE
Fontenele, Raimundo Eduardo Silveira - 2007
contingent valuation method, this article has aimed to present tariff valuesto be charged from users of the Water Reuse of the … project, once the charged tariff ranges within the limits of accomplishment of the their industrial costs. …
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The Relative Impacts of U.S. Bio-Fuel Policies on Fuel-Energy Markets: A Comparative Static Analysis
Kim, C.S.; Schaible, Glenn D.; Daberkow, Stan G. - 2010
Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008,while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policymodelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximizationmodels for...
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THE EXPECTED COST OF AN INCOME SUPPORT PROGRAM FOR PROCESSING ORANGES
Weldon, Richard N.; VanSickle, John J. - 2002
the orange juice tariff on the financial health of the Florida orange industry. The purpose of this paper is to examine … tariff were eliminated. For the span of the Bill direct payments to corn are estimated to total $25.1 billion. By comparison … with the tariff in place the expenditures are estimated to be about $300 million and would fall below $200 million by 2007 …
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MEASURING INEFFICIENCY IN THE PRESENCE OF AN EXPORT TAX, AN IMPORT TARIFF, AND A STATE TRADING ENTERPRISE
Schmitz, Troy G. - 2002
Agricultural sales cooperative unions (ASCUs) in Turkey are heavily influenced by both domestic and international government policies. Both export taxes and import tariffs are used as policy tools to regulate cotton markets. Domestic price support programs, water subsidies, fertilizer subsidies,...
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Analisis Pengaruh Tarif Dan Jenis Produk Asuransi Terhadap Pencapaian Target Premi Di PT. Asuransi Bringin Sejahtera Artamakmur Medan
Lubis, Hidayati Purnama - 2011
policyholders, to the tariff policy efforts are required and the right products for their role in achieving the strategic function … and its policyholders. Formulation of the problem in this research are: (1) How far the effect of tariff and types of …'s purchasing power and competition in the insurance tariff companies on PT Asuransi BSAM Medan.Theory used in this research is the …
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Analisis Pengaruh Kebijakan Tarif Dan Promosi Terhadap Pertumbuhan Jumlah Pelanggan Telkom Flexi Di Kandatel Medan
Rahmadiansyah, Surya - 2011
analyze the effect of tariff policy and promotions on consumer responses and also analyzed the effect of tariff policies and … Spearman. Results of analysis for the first hypothesis indicate that the independent variables (tariff policy and promotions …) can be explained dependent variable (consumer response), and tariff policy and promotions by Telkom Medan Kandatel high …
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Beyond Brigden: Australia’s pre-war manufacturing tariffs, real wages and economic size
Tyers, Rod; Colman, William - 2005
Like many industrialised economies in the pre-depression era, Australia elected to maintain a highly protectionist trade policy regime and hence to retard its integration with the global economy. The rationale for Australia’s protectionism was, as elsewhere, the enhancement of worker welfare....
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A Stackelberg game model of trade in renewable resources with competitive sellers
Batabyal, Amitrajeet; Beladi, Hamid - 2006
We model international trade in renewable resources between a single buyer and competitive sellersas a Stackelberg differential game. The buyer uses unit and ad valorem tariffs to indirectly encourageconservation of the renewable resource under study. First, we show that the efficacy of these...
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