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Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies

Newell, Richard; Anderson, Soren - 2003

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies remove carbon dioxide from flue gases for storage in geologic formations …

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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica

Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004

evidence of capture of politicians and regulators by managers in the interest of shareholders, although evidence suggests the …-level regulation will likely make any type of collusion or capture more difficult in the future. …

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Homeland Security and the Rules of International Trade

Kerr, William A. - In: Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy 05 (2004) 1

International trade law is very clear: national security concerns take precedent over any commitments in trade agreements. In response to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, the United States and other countries have been putting in place new anti-terrorist...

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Curtailing capture through the European banking union: A note of caution

Woll, Cornelia - 2014

regulators and domestic financial institutions in order to prevent regulatory capture. However, supervisory authority over the …

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Modeling the Choice Between Regulation and Liability in Terms of Social Welfare

Boyer, Marcel; Porrini, Donatella - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2002

is welfare superior, inferior or equivalent to a system based on an incentive regulatory scheme subject to capture by the … regulatory capture. We characterize in this parameter space the regions where one system dominates the other. À l aide d un … reposant sur un mécanisme de réglementation incitative sujet à la capture par les réglementés. Nous considérons explicitement …

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...

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Institutional Subversion: Evidence from Russian Regions

Slinko, Irina; Yakovlev, Evgeny; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

What are the effects of institutional subversion on small business development, fiscal policies, economic growth, and firm performance? This Paper provides an empirical investigation of institutional subversion in Russia’s regions. We develop a complete account of preferential treatments to...

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Decentralization, corruption, and political accountability in developing countries

Nupia, Oskar - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2007

Powerful local elites are quite common in developing countries. Thus, whether decentralization reduces or not the level of corruption in the presence of these elites is a relevant issue for these economies. We motivate this paper with some empirical evidence. Using cross-country information we...

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Capture of Bankruptcy: Theory and Evidence from Russia

Lambert-Mogiliansky, Ariane; Sonin, Konstantin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

the legal system in Russia is faulted by the capture of regional divisions of arbitrage courts. We analyse the …

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Capture of Anti-Poverty Programs: An Analysis of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program in India

Jha, Raghbendra; Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Gaiha, Raghav; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2008

examines whether this sign reversal in Andhra Pradesh is indicative of program capture in Andhra Pradesh and better targeting … conclude that program capture may be an issue in Andhra Pradesh, largely because of these reasons. We also find evidence of …

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