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Wisman, Jon D.; Baker, Barton - 2011

The most widely embraced explanations of the financial crisis of 2008 have centered upon inadequate regulation stemming from laissez-faire ideology, combined with low interest rates. Although these widely-acknowledged causal factors are true, beneath them lies a deeper determining force that has...

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Learning from the economics of networks to enhance poverty alleviation in African cotton zones

Fok, Michel - HAL - 2008

deregulation, cotton development in SSA could be reviewed and their current restructuring appraised according to economics of … as they are of insufficient size. Where cotton production is well developed, such deregulation could be considered but …

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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEREGULATION IN THE U.S. GAS DISTRIBUTION MARKET

Hlasny, Vladimir - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2010

Causes and consequences of deregulation and restructuring in utility markets in US states continue to draw heated … formulate predictions about regulators’ net benefits from a particular form of deregulation. Empirical hazard model evaluates … are significant in explaining the pattern of deregulation. Utilities’ prices, capacity and scope of operations help …

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Asymmetric Price Adjustments in a Deregulated Gasoline Market

Salas, J.M. Ian S. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 39 (2002) 1, pp. 38-71

adjustments in the Philippine retail gasoline market since its deregulation. It finds that pricing decisions of oil firms depend …

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Understanding competition policy : a suggested framework

Medalla, Erlinda M. - In: Philippine Review of Economics 40 (2003) 1, pp. 1-26

This paper defines the elements that comprise a competitive setting and clarifies the objectives of competition policy. The role and primary task of competition policy are emphasized. A framework for competition policy and the basic elements to implement it are spelled out. The major areas of...

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From Bureaucracy to Debureaucratization?

Argyriades, Demetrios - In: Public Organization Review 10 (2010) 3, pp. 275-297

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"The Global Financial Crisis and a New Capitalism?"

Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos - Levy Economics Institute - 2010

ideology and deregulation. From this crisis a new democratic capitalist system will emerge, though its character is difficult …

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Regulation, deregulation, and internationalisation in South African and New Zealand banking

Singleton, John; Verhoef, Grietjie - In: Business History 52 (2010) 4, pp. 536-563

The banking industries of New Zealand and South Africa were among the most tightly regulated in the western world in the early 1980s. Restrictions on foreign banks were particularly acute, especially in South Africa. From a position of considerable isolation, first New Zealand then South Africa...

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"The Financial Crisis Viewed from the Perspective of the “Social Costs” Theory"

Wray, L. Randall - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

This paper examines the causes and consequences of the current global financial crisis. It largely relies on the work of Hyman Minsky, although analyses by John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen of the causes of the 1930s collapse are used to show similarities between the two crises. K.W....

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Deregulation shock in product market and unemployment

Bertinelli, Luisito; Cardi, Olivier; Sen, Partha - HAL - 2011

fairly unchanged. For a calibration capturing alternatively European and the U.S. labor markets, a deregulation episode …

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