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Transparency and Participation in the World Trade Organization

Charnovitz, Steve - 2006

This paper discusses the challenge of improving transparency and participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Part I explores the development in international trade law of the norm for transparency and participation at the national level. The analysis begins with Immanuel Kant and traces...

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Is Cost-Benefit Analysis Neutral?

Driesen, David M. - 2005

appropriate stringency of environmental, health, and safety regulation. This article examines whether CBA is neutral in effect, i … regulation, rather than less. These letters have never prompted any fresh regulatory action and rarely have any basis in CBA … legal formulation of a cost-benefit test, that the costs should not exceed the benefits of regulation, acts a one …

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Analog and Digital Must-Carry Obligations of Cable and Satellite Television Operators in the United States

Frieden, Rob - 2014

This paper provides a concise summary of mandatory signal carriage obligations of cable television and direct broadcast satellite operators. The paper provides a timely update of recent changes in must carry responsibilities resulting from the onset of digital broadcast television and enactment...

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Direct Infringement on Peer-to-Peer Networks

Schaumann, Niels - 2015

In 2001, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a trial court decision that some 75 million Americans were infringing copyright by exchanging music files in the MP3 format via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network known as Napster. The breathtaking sweep of this holding - that almost one quarter of the population of...

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Risky Business : Managing Interagency Acquisition

Schooner, Steven L. - 2012

This brief piece applauds the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for adding the management of interagency contracting to its High Risk List. It suggests that interagency acquisition, the poster child for the flexible, streamlined, businesslike approach of the 1990's acquisition reform...

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Deregulation and Resource Reconfiguration in the Electric Utility Industry

Delmas, Magali A.; Russo, Michael V.; Montes-Sancho, … - 2005

This paper analyzes how economic deregulation impacts resource reconfiguration in the electric utility industry. We argue that to understand strategic change in this industry, we need to understand how development and deployment of a firm's resources reflects path dependencies that nonmarket...

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Antitrust Immunity and Standard Setting Organizations : A Case Study in the Use of Liberal Models to Cope with Private Power

Sagers, Chris - 2018

application of traditional political models to the regulation of business …

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Emissions Trading 2005 and its Implications for Businesses

Park, DaeYoung - 2010

The formulation of a market needs a buyer and a seller and, at times, due to high transaction costs (e.g. finding a buyer or seller, price discovery), market participants want a specialized broker to link buyers and sellers efficiently. Certainly, people want to buy or sell products or services...

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International Standards and the WTO

Charnovitz, Steve - 2005

This study provides an overview of how the World Trade Organization rules relate to international standards, that is, standards propounded by some international entity. The topic of standards is a cross-cutting issue in the WTO because rules regarding international standards appear in several of...

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Local Loop Unbundling in Europe : Experience, Prospects and Policy Challenges

de Bijl, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2013

addition, the paper explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and related, recent …

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