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Deregulation and R&D in Network Industries: The Case of the Electricity Industry

Jamasb, Tooraj; Pollitt, Michael G - 2005

Electricity reform has coincided with a significant decline in energy R&D activities. Technical progress is crucial for tackling many energy and environmental issues as well as for long-term efficiency improvement. This paper reviews the industrial organisation literature on innovation to...

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Competition and contracts in the Nordic Residential Electricity Markets

Littlechild, Stephen C - 2005

outcomes that customers prefer. Without retail competition, it is not clear how regulation will replicate this aspect of the …

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Beyond Regulation

Littlechild, Stephen C - 2006

supplanting the role of regulation. Revised calculations suggest that the benefits of UK electricity privatisation were higher … contracts in Nordic markets, posing questions for regulation in the absence of retail competition. There are alternatives to … regulation of network monopolies. In Australia regulated interconnectors have been less economic than merchant interconnectors …

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How do GM / non GM coexistence regulations affect markets and welfare?

Desquilbet, Marion; Poret, Sylvaine - 2011

endogenous cropchoices and prices, we study the effects of ex ante regulation and ex post liability of GMO producers onmarket …

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Evaluating Tradable Property Rights for Natural Resources: The Role of Strategic Entry and Exit

Brandt, Sylvia - 2003

This paper presents an econometric approach to the evaluation of environmental regulation using tradable property …

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The Bankers Know Best: How Regulatory Policy Shaped the Rise and Fall of the Credit Default Swap Market

Tesarfreund, Matthew - 2011

Many critics partially attribute the severity of the 2008 financial crisis to a lack of regulatory oversight over credit derivatives. This paper will examine the governmental and private regulatory systems that aided the proliferation of these complex “financial weapons of mass destruction”...

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Why Don't Firms Take Advantage of More Flexible Labor Options? Regulation, Enforcement and Corruption,

Hallward-Driemier, Mary; Helppie, Brooke - 2007

This paper investigates how employment regulations affect firms’ use of moreflexible employment arrangements. Using firm level data from 27 countries in EasternEurope and Central Asia the paper not only looks at variations in the formal, de jurerestrictions on labor practices across countries,...

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Infrastructure investment in network industries: The role of incentive regulation and regulatory independence

Egert, Balazs - 2009

-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

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The RFID Value Proposition

Renegar, B. D.; Michael, K. - 2008

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has the potential to revolutionize the retail industry, yet the linking of this automatic identification (auto-ID) technology to consumer goods has resulted in widespread concern over the potential privacy threats, primarily due to the aspect of traceability...

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A Global Lottery and a Global Premium Bond

Addison, Tony; Chowdhury, Abdur - 2005

issue by discussing lottery operators and their regulation, the market for lotteries, competition between the global lottery …

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