the costs associated with investment in fiber-optic networks are likely recoverable in some markets, but that there is a …

negative impact from such regulation on ISP investment. Counter to many claims, it is argued here that ISP competition may not … providers. With this additional price it is demonstrated that the type of net neutrality regulation (i.e., weak versus strong … strong net neutrality may stimulate content provider investment while the model concludes that there is unlikely to be any …

We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven …' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent … set of assumptions, the merchant investment model has a remarkable set of attributes that appear to solve the natural …

We investigate the characteristics of infrastructure as an asset class from an investment perspective of a limited … subsidy to infrastructure as an asset class, which we estimate within the range of $730 million to $3.16 billion per year …

, progressive taxation as well as investment and output subsidies to the entrepreneurial sector …

of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real GDP that … closely resemble actual U.S. time series. Despite having no explicit financial market, the model has investment fall steeply …

-firm bargaining also gives rise to underinvestment. In this framework, it turns out that an investment subsidy dominates an employment … subsidy in terms of welfare. The reason is that investment subsidies are a more efficient instrument to alleviate the … empirically much more important than employment subsidies. We then discuss possible explanations for the dominance of investment …

This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …

This paper analyzes the impact of the Medicaid patient subsidy and Certificate of Need (CON) cost containment programs …