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(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
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(Smith 1962) and recent theoretical results (Dufwenberg et al. 2008) suggest that competition forces people to behave as if …
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contested places where competition, safety, and reliability meet. Yet, regulators and academics have largely overlooked the … risks Joint Pole Committees (JPCs) pose for energy and communications safety, service, competition, and regulation. This …, competition, and accountable governance at the forefront of utility regulation. This article lifts the veil over JPC practices …
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Merger review in the United States has overlooked a significant competition harm: increasing risk. Mergers can increase … harming competition can be blocked under the Clayton Act. Risk should therefore be treated like innovation in merger review as …. When a merger increases risk because of a harm to competition, that increased risk is an antitrust harm and can therefore …
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A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...
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A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers’ subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242339
Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
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Consider legal uncertainty as uncertainty about the legality of a specific action. In particular, suppose that the threshold of legality is uncertain. I show that this legal uncertainty raises welfare. Legal uncertainty changes deterrence in opposite directions. The probability of conviction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005652
Climate change is seen as the most pressing environmental problem of our time by many companies, policymakers and other stakeholders. It is currently also at the forefront of attention in view of attempts to conclude a successor to the Kyoto Protocol that expires in 2012. In bail-out plans and...
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