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This paper puts together the pieces of the puzzle of the ongoing regulatory competition debate on corporate law in the US. At early stages of this process Delaware conquered the leader’s place replacing Jersey, and forever locked-in there through peculiar manners. The States take as granted...
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We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the...
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Mainland China, focusing on the regulation of listing of PRC firms in Hong Kong, the impact of PRC capital account control on …
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In an industry where regulated firms interact with unregulated suppliers, we investigate the welfare effects of a merger between regulated firms when cost synergies are uncertain before the merger and their realization becomes private information of the merged firm. The optimal merger policy...
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coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …
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Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
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Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order … varieties of market failures and identify those for which regulation is best address (cooperation failures such as The Fishing … regulation in jurisdictions where institutions are weak. The reasons are: information intensity and asymmetry being greater with …
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roaming services. The investigation and analysis find that there are currently low levels of alignment in regulation between … operator costs is asymmetric, making regulation challenging, as this affects the extent to which the relationship between costs …-the-top services. Attention therefore needs to be paid to the harmonization of regulation regarding Internet-related services. Here …
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