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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, industrial innovation, and real option creation
Waters, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We look at the effect of the US Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) financial regulation on industrial innovation. Our theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110292
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Timing of adoption of clean technologies, transboundary pollution and international trade
Ben Jebli, Mehdi; Ben Youssef, Slim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We consider a symmetric model composed of two countries and a firm in each country. Firms produce the same good by means of a polluting technology that uses fossil energy. However, these firms can adopt a clean technology that uses a renewable energy and that has a lower unit cost. Surprisingly,...
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Regulatory Reform in Turkish Energy Industry: An analysis
Erdogdu, Erkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The Republic of Turkey has initiated an ambitious reform program in the most important segments of her energy market; which requires privatization, liberalization as well as a radical restructuring of these industries. However, there is no consensus that the measures introduced are optimal. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502743
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Network neutrality and congestion sensitive content providers: Implications for content variety, broadband investment and regulation
Krämer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111227
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Network neutrality and congestion sensitive content providers: Implications for content variety, broadband investment and regulation
Krämer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We study departures from network neutrality through implementing a Quality of Service tiering regime in which an ISP charges for prioritization on a non-discriminatory basis. We find that Quality of Service tiering may be more efficient in the short run, because it better allocates the existing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593240
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Justifiability of Bayesian Implementation in Oligopolistic Markets
Koray, Semih; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
Nash implementable if the number of firms is at least two. Thus, monopoly regulation whenever consumers are favored by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835475
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Interconnection of Cable Networks: A Regulation Proposal for Broadband Internet Services
Leitão, João - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this article a brief revision of the European and Portuguese Regulatory frameworks is made, especially in terms of the interconnection of broadband internet services that are offered by cable operators. A formalization with two cable networks is presented, in order to obtain a benchmark for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835807
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Can Price Discrimination be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation
Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The article examines a differentiated-products duopoly model where the firms make entry decisions to two markets and then choose prices. The effects of product differentiation and entry costs are analyzed in two games: with and without price discrimination between the markets. Allowing price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836325
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The Regulation of the Credit Card Market in Turkey
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Lerzan, Yildiz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
of these complaints coinciding with the accelerating suicide incidences due to credit card debts, regulation has been … bringing out temporary solutions. In 2005, a more comprehensive credit card law came into effect. With this regulation, Central … this paper; reasons, advantages, disadvantages of this regulation are discussed along with a quick glance on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836558
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Flexible Rate Filing Insurance Rate Regulation as Alternative to Incentive Incompatibility in Prior-Approval
Strauss, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
of combining competitive forces with prior-approval regulation. This short note proposes a change to flex-rating so that …
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