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Per-Customer Quantity Limit and Price Discrimination : Evidence from the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market
Ma, Chao - 2020
Theoretically, if firms face a regulatory per-customer quantity limit, they should have an incentive to discriminatively charge high-demand customers higher prices and make them just willing to buy a quantity equal to the limit. In the U.S. residential mortgage industry, mortgages with...
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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 …
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Some Observations on Claims That Rising Market Power Is Responsible for US Economy Ills and That Lax Antitrust Is the Villain
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2020
This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...
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Student Quality as Measured by Lsat Scores : Migration Patterns in the U.S. News Rankings Era
Henderson, William D.; Morriss, Andrew P. - 2013
This study examines the change in entering class median LSAT, a key input into the U.S. News & World Report rankings, between 1993 and 2004. Using multivariate regression analysis, the authors model several factors that can influence the direction and magnitude of this change. The study presents...
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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study
Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
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Investment under uncertainty and regulation of new access networks
Inderst, Roman; Peitz, Martin - 2013
Contractual and regulatory provisions for access affect incentives to invest in an upgraded network and, in particular, a next-generation access network. Investment decisions are made under uncertainty and have to be made over time. This papers provides a framework for taking uncertainty, risk...
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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study
Bruni, Franco (ed.); Llewellyn, David T. (ed.) - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705347
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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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Broadband Adoption in the United States : An Empirical Analysis
Aron, Debra J.; Burnstein, David E. - 2014
There is a policy debate at both state and federal levels over how to facilitate consumer adoption of the Internet and, particularly, broadband technology to access the Internet. The objective of this study is to offer empirical evidence directly relevant to this debate. In so doing, we examine...
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