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Natural Gas Deregulation in the US : 1970-2000
Isser, Steve N. - 2018
This paper traces the process of deregulation in the US natural gas market in the 1970s and 1980s and the restructuring … of the gas market in the 1990s. I review the politics behind deregulation and the actions of the FPC and FERC to first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918519
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Network Structure and Design in the Deregulated U.S. Airline Industry : An Argument for Re-Regulation?
Hussain, Sayed A.; Bahçeci, Serkan - 2008
frequency, aircraft size, prices) in the post-deregulation U.S. airline industry. We show that legacy carriers choice of Hub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214071
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Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency : The U.S. Electric Utility Sector
Delmas, Magali A.; Tokat, Yesim - 2003
by high uncertainty. We analyze the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric … utilities in the United States. We argue that there are transitory costs linked to the process of deregulation. The business … deregulation by adopting vertical integration strategies. Organizational scholars on the contrary argue that firms vertically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031113
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes - 2004
experience with deregulation created pressures for liberalisation in network industries, where the United States has rather been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444089
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A tale of two tails : commuting and the fuel price response in driving
Gillingham, Kenneth; Munk-Nielsen, Anders - 2017
Pricing greenhouse gases is widely understood as the most efficient approach for mitigating climate change, yet distributional effects hamper political acceptance. These distributional effects are especially important in transport, the fastest growing sector for greenhouse gas emissions. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774924
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Regulatory independence and political interference : evidence from EU mixed-ownership utilities’ investment and debt
Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura - 2010 - This draft: 11 May 2010
This paper examines the investment and financial decisions of a sample of 92 EU regulated utilities, taking into account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of independence; b) partial ownership of the state in the regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729094
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Bundling, Differentiation, Alliances and Mergers : Convergence Strategies in U.S. Communication Markets
Bauer, Johannes M. - 2012
Convergence is a multi-facetted phenomenon affecting the technological basis of information and communication industries, the boundaries of existing and new markets, and the organization of service providers. Convergence in substitutes will tend to increase the intensity of competition but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755398
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U.S. Corporate Profit Margins, a Bottoms-Up Analysis : Deja Vu All Over Again
Ramraika, CFA, Baijnath - 2014
As U.S. corporate profit margins have made it to record highs, a debate has raged between those who place their hopes on a new paradigm of sustained high profits and those who believe in capitalism's efficiency and the tendency of margins to revert to the mean. Using a bottoms-up analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044291
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US policy towards research joint ventures: Special issue on science and technology policies towards research joint ventures
Vonortas, Nicholas S. - 2000
The US government has decidedly moved towards encouraging co-operation in research and development (R&D) between firms, universities, and other research institutes since the early 1980s. The Republican Administration in the early 1980s set the stage for a radical shift in market environment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608578
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E.T. and innovation - science fiction or reality? An assessment of the impact of emissions trading on innovation
Gagelmann, Frank - 2003
This discussion paper reviews the literature on experiences with innovation under the existing emissions trading schemes in the USA. The basic result from this review is that the innovation effects triggered by emissions trading have been limited because a) targets were not constraining in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304544