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risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition … and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper …
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Many of the world’s developed economies have introduced, or are planning to introduce, bank bail-in regimes. Both the planned EU resolution regime and the European Stability Mechanism Treaty involve the participation of bank creditors in bearing the costs of bank recapitalization via the...
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When today’s actions can affect tomorrow's value of an asset and when the principal does not have access to hard information, either about productive activity or monitoring activity, two incentive problems must be simultaneously solved: first, the ‘ex-ante’ moral hazard problem of inducing...
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We analyze the design of optimal regulation of a domestic monopolist that also competes in an unregulated foreign … market. We show how foreign activities by the regulated firm affect domestic regulation, consumers’ surplus and firm …
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practitioners and economists, taking the existing regulatory environment as fixed. Based on the degree of existing regulation (full …
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technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive …
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The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologies. Each domestic firm is controlled by a national regulator in a common market made of two...
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The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …
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This paper examines the effects of a competitive fringe on a regulated firm. Using Hart's (1983) model, we show that competition weakens the managerial incentives for cost reduction: when there is correlation between the cost levels of the firms in the industry, costs are higher in the regulated...
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zero output values without losing its flexibility properties. The tests shed light on the respective roles of regulation …
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