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Regulation of the Electricity Market in Germany

Heck, Volker - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 30-38

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Unilateral Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Wolak, Frank A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 10-15

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The Economics and Politics of the Slowdown in Regulatory Reform

Noll, Roger - American Enterprise Institute

The federal government has made substantial progress in reforming economic regulation--especially by deregulating prices and reducing entry barriers in specific industries.

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La régionalisation ferroviaire en France : une première évaluation par la méthode des comptes de surplus

Desmaris, Christian - In: Revue d'économie industrielle n° 131 (2010) 3, pp. 69-104

The French regions have since 1997 for some of them, and since 2002 for the others, to a sponsor of public service for regional travelers, faced with a monopoly of the SNCF. Economic theory and the first assessments show that the monopoly will receive an informational means. One wonders...

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“When supply travels far beyond demand: Causes of oversupply in Spain’s transport infrastructure”

Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014

Spain’s transport infrastructure policy has become a paradigmatic case of oversupply and of mismatch with demand. The … massive expansion of the country’s transport infrastructure over the last decade has not been a response to demand bottlenecks … or previously identified needs. For this reason, the intensity of use today on all interurban modes of transport in Spain …

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An Agenda for Italian Airports. Future Investments, Management and Regulation

Emilio, Signorini Paolo; Micaela, Celio - In: Economia dei Servizi (2011) 1, pp. 95-118

This paper examines factors underlying the investment decisions on airport infrastructures and the main features of the economic related regulation in Italy. In order to evaluate the system's future capacity to compete globally and at an intermodal level following the forecasted increase in the...

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Taxi and limousine services after the Bersani reform: an investigation on main Italian cities

Bentivogli, Chiara - Banca d'Italia - 2008

Using data from a Bank of Italy survey, this paper analyzes the Italian taxi market and its recent changes. Local regulations are rather homogeneous, while there is a widespread disproportion, within municipal advisory committees, between the number of representatives of taxi drivers and that of...

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Positive externalities from active car safety systems

Berlemann, Michael; Matthes, Andreas - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 36 (2014) 2, pp. 313-329

Policymakers around the globe have opted for high levels of regulation of the market for vehicle safety and declared many vehicle safety systems as mandatory for new cars. In this paper we argue that the delivered justifications for these policies are at least questionable. We add a completely...

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Taxi regulation and the Bersani reform: a survey of major Italian cities

Bentivogli, Chiara - In: European Transport \ Trasporti Europei (2009) 41, pp. 1-27

Using data from a Bank of Italy survey, this paper analyzes the Italian taxi market and its recent changes. Local regulations are rather homogeneous, while there is a widespread disproportion, within municipalities advisory committees, between the number of taxi drivers representatives and that...

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Regulators as Reflexive Governance Platforms

Brousseau, Eric; Glachant, Jean-Michel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk cost industries, due to the high level of investments in R&D and infrastructures. Players in these industries need to coordinate their investments; hence a threat of collusion....

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