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Reform and Regulation of the Electricity Sectors in Developing Countries

Jamasb, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2002

The 1990s witnessed a worldwide trend toward electricity sector reforms in developed and developing economies. These reforms have generally been based on private participation, regulatory reform, and competition in the sector. This paper reviews and draws lessons from the reform experience in...

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Product Market Regulation in Romania: A Comparison with OECD Countries

Fay, Marianne; De Rosa, Donato; Pauna, Catalin - In: Journal for Economic Forecasting 5 (2008) 2, pp. 5-34

Market Regulation (PMR). The PMR indicators allow a comprehensive mapping of policies affecting competition in product …

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Identity Preservation and Labeling of Genetically Modified Products: System Design and Enforcement Issues

Moschini, GianCarlo; Lapan, Harvey E. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2004

modeled at the marketing stage. Regulation takes the form of a threshold level of purity for non-GM products, a probability of …

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Regulation and Hospital Competition in a Medical Arms Race

Fournier, G.M.; Schumacher, E.J. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 1996

This paper provides a model of hospital competition to explain the "medical arms race", i.e. the tendency of hospitals to over-invest in specialized services. The model examines how hospitals gain an edge ("prestige effect") by adopting a larger complement of services than their rivals. In a...

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Of Carts and Horses: Regulation and Privatization in Telecommunications Reforms

Wallsten, Scott - In: Journal of Economic Policy Reform 6 (2003) 4, pp. 217-231

In the early 1990s, many advocated quick privatization of state-owned monopolies in developing countries, assuming that market institutions would develop once firms were privately owned. More recent thinking emphasizes establishing institutions conducive to promoting competition before...

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Liability for Accidents

Shavell, Steven - In: Handbook of Law and Economics

corrective taxation and to regulation. …

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Regulation of Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks

Viscusi, W. Kip - In: Handbook of Law and Economics

regulation. Guided by restrictive legislative mandates, regulatory policies often strike a quite different balance with an … policy efforts. Inadequate regulatory enforcement and behavioral responses to regulation may limit their effectiveness, while …

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Structural Adjustment in European Retail Banking: Some Views from Industrial Organisation

Neven, Damien J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper tries to assess how the current program of European integration will affect the structure of the European retail banking industry. It is argued that trade in banking services is, and will presumably remain, limited, while there is still concern about possible trade diversion. Next, we...

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European Financial Integration: A Framework for Policy Analysis

Mayer, Colin; Neven, Damien J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

In this paper, we investigate the design and implementation of financial regulation where market failures are created … imperfect information, should be supplemented by financial regulation. We focus on two regulatory tools: direct penalties and …-regulatory organizations have adequate incentives to implement regulation. We find that such incentives do exist when firms have sufficient …

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Bigger and Better: A Dynamic Regulatory Mechanism for Optimum Quality

De Fraja, Gianni; Iozzi, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Vogelsang and Finsinger’s seminal paper (Bell Journal of Economics, 1979) proposes a mechanism for price regulation …

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