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Postal service has received considerably less attention in the economics literature than traditional public utilities. Postal service is facing some very important challenges arising out of the increasingly high-tech nature of postal service, the entry of competition into the business, and new...
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This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition. While much of the regulatory action is taking place in telecommunications, the impact of competition and the resultant regulatory change is being felt in other traditional public utilities including electricity. The book reviews topics...
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1 Introduction -- 2 A Non-Bayesian Incentive Mechanism Using Two-Part Tariffs -- 3 Regulating by Capping Prices -- 4 Information, Incentives, and Commitment in Regulatory Mechanisms: Regulatory Innovation in Telecommunications -- 5 Productivity and Price Caps in Telecommunications -- 6 Constant...
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Regulation and Economic Analysis: A Critique Over Two Centuries argues that long experience with the practice of regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists. This consensus is based on comparison of real intervention to real markets rather than an ideological...
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Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This...
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Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the telecommunications and electricity industries. This volume reviews such topics as competitive entry, stranded costs, pricing and...
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This book is distilled from articles presented at two seminars held at Rutgers -- The State University of New Jersey on October 25, 1991, and May 1, 1992, entitled `Economic Innovations in Public Utility Regulations'. These contributions represent the best new research on various topics in...
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This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and Beyond' held at Village PTT, La Londe les Maures, France, on March 18, 1992. Leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the express delivery industry, as well as...
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This volume deals in an innovative way with some of the major issues involved in the current debate over health care reform. The book brings together some of the leading researchers to discuss alternative ways of restructuring the health care industries, and alternative methods for regulating...
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There are few aggregate measures of the amount of regulation in the macroeconomy, despite the enormity of regulation and its macroeconomic consequences. Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance attempts to increase the awareness of macroeconomic effects of regulation by providing some...
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