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Towards Effective U.S. Broadband Policies
Wallsten, Scott - 2013
Although recent international broadband penetration rankings have Congress concerned about U.S. broadband policy, these statistics should not play a large role in forming U.S. broadband policy, as they fail to take into account geographic factors, demographic factors and consumer preferences...
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Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment : Evidence from U.S. State Elections
Shelton, Cameron A. - 2016
state governors exercise considerable influence over legislation and considerable discretion over regulation and permitting …
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Preserving consumer protection and education in a deregulated electric services world : challenges for the post-modern regulator
Shames, Michael - In: Who benefits from privatisation?, (pp. 119-156). 1998
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Restructuring, abroad and at home
In: The electricity journal 11 (1998) 5, pp. 13-80
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The welfare cost of imperfect competition and distortionary taxation
Jonsson, Magnus - 2004
The welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product and labor market as well as distortionary taxation is … quantified in a dynamic general equilibrium model parameterized to fit the U.S. economy. We find that the welfare cost of … imperfect competition in the product market is 35.74 percent while it is 0.66 percent in the labor market, taking the transition …
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Information frictions and adverse selection : policy interventions in health insurance markets
Handel, Benjamin R.; Kolstad, Jonathan; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2015
presence of choice frictions. Friction-reducing policies can increase welfare by facilitating better matches between consumers … and plans, but can decrease welfare by increasing the correlation between willingness-to-pay and costs, exacerbating … protection and (iii) choice frictions that determine whether friction-reducing policies will be on net welfare increasing or …
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing
Snyder, Lori; Miller, Nolan; Stavins, Robert - 2003
We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production … technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane … technology at existing plants and on the exit of existing plants using older technologies. We find that environmental regulation …
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing health and safety policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that...
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Telecoms Regulation, Antitrust and Margin Squeeze : Widening the Already Wide Gap between US and EU Competition Policy?
Diez, Fernando - 2011
– more heavily in the EU than in the US – by the interaction between regulation and antitrust, and to such matter we devote …
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