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Incentive Regulation in Theory and Practice: Electricity Distribution and Transmission Networks

Joskow, P.L. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2006

Modern theoretical principles to govern the design of incentive regulation mechanisms are reviewed and discussed … incentive r egulation mechanisms to the regulation of prices and service quality for “unbundled” transmission and distribution … networks are presented and discussed. Evidence regarding the performance of incentive regulation in practice for electric …

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Capacity-Constrained Supply Function Equilibria: Competition and Entry in the Electricity Spot Market and Competition and Regulation in English Electricity Industry.

Newbery, D.M. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 1991

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INTEREST GROUPS, VETO POINTS AND ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE DEPLOYMENT

Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

In this paper we examine the effects of interest group pressure and the structure of political institutions on infrastructure deployment by state-owned electric utilities in a panel of 78 countries during the period 1970 – 1994. We consider two factors that jointly influence the rate of...

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Liberalização e desregulamentação bancária: motivações, consequências e adaptações [Liberalization and deregulation in the banking industry: motivations, outcomes, and adaptations]...

Vasconcelos, Marcos Roberto; Strachman, Eduardo; … - In: Nova Economia 13 (2003) 1, pp. 101-140

outcomes in the countries where it has gone further as well as the necessary adaptations for the banking regulation policy. …

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Broadband Investment and the Threat of Regulation: Preventing Monopoly Exploitation or Infrastructure Construction?

Blum, Ulrich; Growitsch, Christian; Krap, Niels - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 3, pp. 342-354

monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under a threat of regulation. We show that the mere threat of a … regulator's intervention may prevent supernormal profits without actual price regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, can … influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. …

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Panel on Competition Policy in Card-Based Payment Systems: Commentary

Ergas, Henry - In: Review of Network Economics 4 (2005) 4, pp. 415-419

The following is a transcription of my discussion of the papers (published in this issue) that were presented in the Panel on Competition Policy in Card-Based Payment Systems session of the Antitrust Activity in Card-Based Payment Systems: Causes and Consequences conference.

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Externalities and Regulation in Card Payment Systems

Rochet, Jean-Charles; Tirole, Jean - In: Review of Network Economics 5 (2006) 1, pp. 1-14

The paper offers a roadmap to the current economic thinking concerning interchange fees. After describing the fundamental externalities inherent in payment systems and analysing merchant resistance to interchange fee increases and the associations' determination of this fee, it derives the...

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Editors' Foreword

Weisman, Dennis L.; Tardiff, Timothy J. - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 4, pp. 448-459

of regulation, antitrust and public policy, as applied to the telecommunications, electric power, and railroad and …

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Assessing Competition in Philippine Markets

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2008

This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in the economy. Philippine experience has shown that...

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Tax, Subsidy, and/or Information for Health: An Example from Fish Consumption

Marette, Stéphan; Roosen, Jutta; Blanchemanche, Sandrine - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2007

A calibrated model is used to determine the welfare impacts of various regulatory instruments for improving health. The results of a lab experiment are integrated in a partial equilibrium model representing demands for two kinds of fish, one with higher nutritional benefits (canned sardines) and...

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