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Deregulating Relevancy in Internet Trademark Law

Goldman, Eric - 2014

This Article examines the complex world of Internet search. The Article seeks to ensure that trademark law does not interfere with the free flow of Internet content that consumers find relevant. The Article starts with three complementary looks at Internet search from the perspectives of...

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A Look Upstream: Electricity Market Restructuring, Risk, Procurement Contracts and Efficiency

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Lazarova, Emiliya - Division of Economics and Business, Colorado School of Mines - 2014

This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically how upstream markets are affected by deregulation downstream …. Deregulation tends to increase the level of uncertainty in the upstream market. Our theoretical analysis predicts that deregulated … plants. On the other hand, we also find that transaction costs may have increased as a consequence of deregulation. …

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The effect of elevation in competition on markets for credence goods : an investigation on the NYC taxis

Ahmadi, Iman - In: Pricing and competition in markets : analytical and …, (pp. 177-212). 2018

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Face/off : the adverse effects of increased competition

Ahmadi, Iman - In: Quantitative marketing and economics : QME 21 (2023) 2, pp. 183-279

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Business incubators in China: an inquiry into the variables associated with incubatee success

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2010

This paper examines the association between the outcome of business incubation and the resources used by incubators, by using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms graduating from an STBI is closely correlated with...

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Business incubators in China: An inquiry into the variables associated with incubatee success

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-7, pp. 1-26

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EU regional policy: Its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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People or places? Factors associated with the presence of domestic energy efficiency measures in England

Leicester, Andrew; Stoye, George - 2013

We use English household-level survey data from 1996 to 2010 to explore whether economic market failures play a significant role in explaining the presence of energy efficiency measures (loft insulation, cavity wall insulation and full double glazing) in residential properties. There appears to...

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Competition, regulation and institutional quality

Fabella, Raul V. - 2017

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order for either to deliver welfare gains, there must first be a pre-existing market failure. We first present different varieties of market failures and identify those for which...

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Estimating an SME investment gap and the contribution of financing frictions

Lawless, Martina; O'Toole, Conor; Slaymaker, Rachel - 2018

In this paper, we use firm-level survey data to explore the determinants of SME investment activity and the extent to which observed investment is in line with that suggested by economic fundamentals. In contrast to previous literature which has focused on whether investment gaps exist at a more...

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