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Implementing Electricity Restructuring: Policies, Potholes, and Prospects

Palmer, Karen; Brennan, Timothy; Martinez, Salvador - 2001

Electricity is one of the last U.S. industries in which competition is replacing regulation. We briefly review the …

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Creating the Conditions for International Business Expansion: The Impact of Regulation on Economic Growth in Developing Countries - A Cross-Country Analysis

Jililian, Hossein; Kirkpatrick, Colin; Parker, David - Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), … - 2003

be an important determinant of how well markets function. This paper explores the role of regulation in affecting … strong causal link between regulatory quality and economic performance. The results confirm that "good" regulation is …

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POLITICS AND MARKETS IN THE ARTICULATION OF PREFERENCES FOR ATTRIBUTES OF THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS: FRAMING THE ISSUES

Abdalla, Charles W.; Shaffer, James D. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 29 (1997) 01

Industrialization of the food and agricultural sectors changes the pattern of external effects. Participants helped or harmed in the process attempt to influence outcomes through markets and politics. Decisions about property rights and boundaries determine benefits and burdens and the relative...

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Precios Eléctricos Flexibles

Montero, Juan Pablo; Rudnick, Hugh - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 38 (2001) 113, pp. 91-109

One of the critiques to the regulatory framework of the Chilean electricity sector is the lack of flexibility for regulated prices (nodal prices) to adapt to changes in supply and demand. We develop a simple model to estimate welfare losses when using uni

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Market Structure and Environmental Innovation

Montero, Juan-Pablo - Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas … - 2002

This paper studies firms’ incentives to invest in environmental R&D under different market structures (Cournot and … market strategic effects, R&D incentives vary widely across market structures and instruments. For example, when firms …

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Regulatory Issues in Electronic Money: A Legal-Economics Analysis.

Lee, B.C.; Longe-Akindemowo, O. - School of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, … - 1998

desirability of regulation. Thirdly, technological advances and financial innovations have made it easier for firms to engage in …, resulting in a less than socially optimal level of regulation overall. It is therefore important that national authorities …

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POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF TRANSFERRING PATIENTS TO PRIVATE PRACTICE

González, Paula - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2002

We construct a model to analyze the willingness of Health Authorities to reach agreements with private hospitals to have some of their public sector patients treated there. When physicians are dual suppliers, we show that a problem of cream-skimming arises and reduces the incentives of the...

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Appraising transport investments in a regulatory regime

Vickerman, Roger - Fachgebiet Wirtschafts- und Infrastukturpolitik (WIP), … - 2006

there are wider economic benefits. This paper examines the situation where the market for transport provision operates under … a regulatory regime. The impact of regulation has tended to focus on the price and output decision rather than the …

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The Optimal Regulation of Credit Rating Agencies

Forster, Josef - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

& Immordino (2007), we study the optimal regulation of CRAs in a model where rating quality is unobservable and enforcing … regulation is costly. The model shows that minimum rating standards increase the social value of credit ratings. The model also … analyzes implications for regulation in the presence of conflicts of interest between the CRA and the rated clients by direct …

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Economic Reform of the Electricity Industries of Central and Eastern Europe

Stern, Jon; Davis, Junior R. - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation, School … - 1997

price unbundling and rebalancing; in utility commercialisation; in industry and market restructuring and liberalisation; and … in privatisation, as well as the development of economic regulation. For the reasons outlined above, we will explore the …

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