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To increase competition in local telephone markets, the 1996 Telecommunications Act required incumbent firms to lease important inputs to competitors at regulated prices. Defending this so-called stepping-stone hypothesis, the Federal Communications Commission argued that new entrants needed a...
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Western Balkan countries (WBC). The purpose is to examine whether the existence of regulation, as an institutional … effects of regulation and some other factors with crucial influence on the differences between Serbian and other WBC … by the existence of legal regulation, competition, and other factors. All results implicate the necessity of regulatory …
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Electricity markets vary greatly across jurisdictions, in terms of regulatory institutions, cost levels and environmental impacts. Integrating such different markets can lead to significant changes. This paper considers two jurisdictions, one with a regulated monopoly selling at average cost and...
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Motivated by policy events experienced during the last two decades by the European natural gas industry, this paper develops a simple model for analyzing the interaction between gas release and capacity investment programs as tools to improve the performance of imperfectly competitive markets....
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increases competition but come at the cost of lost vertical economies. Generally, we find that regulation that affects only the …. Regulation, however, that adversely affects the incumbent directly, like ownership unbundling, decreases aggregate investment …
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between 2002 and 2005. Our approach is based on the fact that regulation changes incentives for firms and therefore their … market behavior. In the absence of any regulation, firms would choose profit-maximizing prices on their residual demands so … that the observed gap between optimal and actual prices provides a measure of the effect of regulation. Our results …
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This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the effectiveness of regulatory enforcement in increasing the environmental and safety performance of U.S. natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline operators. The analysis combines data on federal regulatory inspections, enforcement actions,...
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role for antitrust challenges to PH laws and similar anticompetitive state regulation. If states wish to reduce the social …
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prudential regulation, its impact must be calibrated against systemic performance benchmarks. Finally, the paper focuses on some …
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to minimize the energy consumption the regulation and the chilled air production is simulated with the software TRNSYS …
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