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The Effects on the Development and Growth of Firms by Omitting a Regulatory Impact Analysis for Legacy Contracts that Participate in the Mexican Electricity Market
Mariscal, Elisa V.; Elbittar, Alexander; Cortes, Josefina - 2021
This paper is a law and economics analysis about the effects of the recent decision to exempt Mexico's energy regulator from a regulatory impact analysis. This occured in spite of receiving an opinion from the competition authority about competition effects of changing the rules of the game for...
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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation
Cicala, Steve - 2013
Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …
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Regulatory Process, Regulatory Reform, and the Quality of Regulatory Impact Analysis
Ellig, Jerry - 2016
Numerous regulatory reform proposals would require federal agencies to conduct more thorough economic analysis of proposed regulations or expand the resources and influence of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which currently reviews executive branch regulations. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006022
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Improving Regulatory Impact Analysis Through Process Reform : Testimony Before the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee
Ellig, Jerry - 2014
Scholarly research demonstrates that Regulatory Impact Analysis often falls short of the standards articulated in executive orders and Office of Management and Budget guidance. More often than not, agencies do not appear to use the Regulatory Impact Analysis to inform major decisions. Regulatory...
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Evaluating the Quality and Use of Regulatory Impact Analysis : The Mercatus Center's Regulatory Report Card, 2008-2013
Ellig, Jerry - 2016
hundreds of millions of dollars in costs without knowing whether a given regulation will really solve a significant problem …
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The impact of the more economic approach on EU merger decisions
Bernhardt, Lea; Dewenter, Ralf - Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Fächergruppe … - 2022
decisions documents in order to find trends and differences in language and wording with respect to the 2004 regulation. As a …
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The effects of the block exemption regulation reform on the Swiss car market
Leheyda, Nina; Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst; … - 2011
In 2002, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) introduced a Notice on the Competitive Treatment of Vertical Restraints in Automobile Trade (‘Car Notice’). The objective of the Car Notice has been to strengthen competition in the Swiss car market, in particular by avoiding price-fixing...
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Maximizing the U.S. Postal Service’s Profits from Competitive Products
Sidak, J. Gregory - 2018
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Franchise termination laws, craft brewery entry and growth
Burgdorf, Jacob - 2021
This paper estimates how beer franchise laws and their interaction with restrictions on vertical integration between manufacturing and wholesaling impacted US craft brewers' entry and production decisions. The effects are identified by exploiting variation in policies across states and time...
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Productivity Gains from Services Liberalization in Europe
Bena, Jan - 2011
As part of the Single Market Program the European Commission commanded the liberalization and regulatory harmonization of utilities, transport and telecommunication services. This paper investigates whether and how this process affected the productivity of European network firms. Exploiting the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117179