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On efficiency grounds, the economics community has to date tended to emphasize price-based policies to address climate change -- such as taxes or a “safety-valve” price ceiling for cap-and-trade -— while environmental advocates have sought a more clear quantitative limit on emissions. This...
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<p><p><p>This paper analyzes the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers. It presents a theoretical model and tests its predictions using unique data from before and after the introduction of smoking bans in the UK. Cigarette smoke is a public bad, and smokers and...</p></p></p>
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result in higher than monopoly call prices; (2) the regulation of termination charges and prices downward will affect mobile …This paper examines the influence of mobile network competition on the prices of fixed-to-mobile calls. Because fixed … subscription rates and may lower these rates; and (3) regulation of any mobile carrier's termination charges can reduce fixed to …
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instrument even when neither government tranfers to firms nor the regulation of entrants is permitted. Optimal regulation …
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Electricity transmission has emerged as critical for successfully liberalising power markets. This paper surveys the issues currently under discussion and provides a framework for the remaining papers in this issue. We conclude that signalling the efficient location of generation investment...
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offset factor for price cap regulation. …
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smoking appear to be central to the problem. The model allows us to examine the appropriate form of optimal regulation and to …
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