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Regulatory Process, Regulatory Reform, and the Quality of Regulatory Impact Analysis
Ellig, Jerry - 2016
Numerous regulatory reform proposals would require federal agencies to conduct more thorough economic analysis of proposed regulations or expand the resources and influence of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which currently reviews executive branch regulations. Such...
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Improving Regulatory Impact Analysis Through Process Reform : Testimony Before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
Ellig, Jerry - 2014
Scholarly research demonstrates that Regulatory Impact Analysis often falls short of the standards articulated in executive orders and Office of Management and Budget guidance. More often than not, agencies do not appear to use the Regulatory Impact Analysis to inform major decisions. Regulatory...
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Evaluating the Quality and Use of Regulatory Impact Analysis : The Mercatus Center's Regulatory Report Card, 2008-2013
Ellig, Jerry - 2016
hundreds of millions of dollars in costs without knowing whether a given regulation will really solve a significant problem …
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Deregulation in retailing : the Dutch experience
Carree, Martin Anthony; Nijkamp, Joyce - 1999
Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years before that the regulator decided to not take legal actions anymore against entrants violating institutional requirements. In the current analysis we investigate the effects of...
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Enhancing Competition in the Postal Sector : Can We Do Away with Sector-Specific Regulation?
Geradin, Damien - 2007
. First, sector-specific regulation can be used to address market failures, such as, for instance, the presence of bottlenecks … of this paper will be on ex ante regulation. There is indeed considerable debate regarding the regulatory framework …-handed approach to regulation. Pursuant to this view, the forthcoming postal directive should only provide for minimal regulatory …
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Network Access Pricing and Deregulation
Sidak, J. Gregory; Spulber, Daniel F. - 2009
The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...
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Antitrust and Regulation - the View of New Institutional Economics
Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 2002
, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focusses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues -- the European …
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Stranded Benefits Versus Stranded Costs in Utility Deregulation
Cearley, Reed W.; Cole, Daniel H. - 2003
The shift to competition in utility generation is likely to generate "stranded investments," which are wealth transfers between investors and utility ratepayers. Stranded investments can take either of two forms: (1) "stranded costs" are a transfer from investors to ratepayers that occur when...
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Liberal Regulation : Privatization of Natural Monopolies with Adverse Selection
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M. - 2007
This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We …-up allows governments to avoid re-funding moneyloosing firms and that welfare is larger than under traditional regulation where …
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Regulatory Reform in the States : Lessons from New Jersey
Shapiro, Stuart - 2011
While numerous examinations of the rule-making process have occurred at the federal level, there are fewer studies about the effects of the proceduralization of the rule-making process on state regulations. Our examination focuses on regulations promulgated in New Jersey, both before and after...
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