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some types of price regulation can reduce broadband investment incentives, though regulations ensuring easier …
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&T) in 1911 and 1913. These data sources provide an opportunity to test the effects of competition and regulation on …
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Modern theoretical principles to govern the design of incentive regulation mechanisms are reviewed and discussed … incentive regulation mechanisms to the regulation of prices and service quality for "unbundled" transmission and distribution … networks are presented and discussed. Evidence regarding the performance of incentive regulation in practice for electric …
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offenses - the prohibition (or regulation) of some activity not because it is wrong, but because it probabilistically (but not … form of regulation, believing that certainly in the criminal law context but even with respect to regulation it is wrong to …
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Regulation of the use of cellular phones by individuals while driving is now commonplace outside the United States and … costs of a ban are likely to exceed benefits by more than $20 billion annually. Less intrusive regulation, such as requiring … not take into account how drivers would alter their behavior in response to regulation. If regulations were enforced …
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rates alone. This paper - a product of the Governance, Regulation, and Finance Group, World Bank Institute - is part of a …
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The FCC has billed 3.5 GHz as the “innovation band,” with the idea that “regulatory adaptability should make the 3.5 GHz band hospitable to a wide variety of users, deployment models, and business cases, including some solutions to market needs not adequately served by our conventional...
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The Federal Communications Commission has requested comments on the regulation of voice telephone services delivered …
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A simple model of yardstick competition between jurisdictions is presented. Governments of jurisdictions face the alternative to choose between an old and a new policy with stochastic payoffs. The new policy is superior to the old policy in one state of the world, and inferior in the other....
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Whether water systems should be owned and operated by governments or private firms is intensely controversial, and little empirical research sheds light on the issue. In this paper we use a panel dataset that includes every community water system in the U.S. from 1997-2003 to test the effects of...
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