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Private International Cartels : Effectiveness, Welfare, and Anticartel Enforcement

Connor, John M. - 2004

authorities after January 1990. The median cartel had five corporate members and generated $1.2 billion in sales during the … penalties, if imposed at maximum levels, would extract about 12 times cartel overcharges, a level sufficient to deter most firms … from forming or joining a cartel. However, applying optimal deterrence concepts to the characteristics of modern …

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Telecommunications Reform in Mexico : Regulation, Market Structure and Social Coverage

Casanueva-Reguart, Cristina - 2014

The study explores the effects on social coverage of services that will potentially be brought about as a result of Mexico's recent Telecommunications Reform. Specifically, the Reform (a) aims to introduce regulation to boost competition, and thereby bridge the market efficiency gap; (b) propose...

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Market structure, regulation and the speed of mobile network penetration

Li, Yan; Lyons, Bruce - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 30 (2012) 6, pp. 697-707

The speed of market penetration (i.e. diffusion) is an important summary measure of how well the market works for potential consumers of a new product. This paper identifies the structural features associated with rapid diffusion of mobile telephony. We use a sample of thirty countries over the...

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A Comparison of the Roles of Privately and State-Owned Oil Companies in Developing the Arctic Shelf

Kaznacheev, Peter - 2016

The Arctic shelf is the richest region of the world by overall volumes of oil and gas resources. However, countries of the Arctic basin have progressed unequally in developing them. In this article, the authors suggest that the diverging result of these countries in many ways depends on the...

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The Welfare Implications of Oil Privatization : A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Norway's Statoil

Wolf, Christian O. H.; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2009

The oil industry is of great economic significance to many countries, and privatisations of National Oil Companies (NOCs) have often been controversial, as have been the benefits from privatisation more generally. We conduct a social cost-benefit analysis of the partial privatisation of Norway's...

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Does Ownership Matter? The Performance and Efficiency of State Oil vs. Private Oil (1987-2006)

Wolf, Christian O. H. - 2009

This paper investigates the existence of ownership effects in the global oil and gas industry, i.e. whether there are systematic performance and efficiency differentials between National Oil Companies (NOCs) and privately-owned International Oil Companies (IOCs). After discussing key issues of...

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Bolivian capitalization and privatization: Approximation to an evaluation

Barja, Gover; McKenzie, David; Urquiola, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The wave of privatizations Latin America experienced during the 1990s was integral to stabilization programs and a general reordering of states’ roles in the regional economy. Over the past few years, however, these privatizations have come under increasing fire. Their purported adverse...

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The Opportunity Cost of Electricity Outages and Privatization of Substations in Nepal

Jyoti, Roop - 2006

The unreliability of electricity supplies is a major cause of the high cost of manufacturing in developing countries. In this paper we are able to measure the cost imposed by power outages and suggest some feasible mitigating measures. The study employs a rich, if not unique, set of data from...

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Perceptions and Inattention in Private Electricity Consumption

Kažukauskas, Andrius - 2016

Households typically receive utility bills where all electricity use during a fixed period of time is lumped together. The lack of direct feedback in the form of marginal costs of using specific electric appliances reduces the attention people give to their energy consumption and potentially...

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Fuel for Inequality : Distributional Effects of Environmental Reforms on Private Transport

Tovar Reaños, Miguel Angel - 2017

This paper provides the first empirical evidence of the distributional effects of subsidies for the purchase of alternative vehicles based on an extended version of Hausman's exact consumer surplus. Consistently with economic theory, we estimate changes in household welfare, inequality and...

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