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Access by the poor in Latin America's utility reform: Subsidies and service obligations

Chisari, Omar O.; Estache, Antonio; Waddams Price, Catherine - 2001

ongoing voluntary connection to services, particularly when the product is considered to be a ‘merit good’. – regulation …

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Regulatory choices and commitment: challenges for electricity market regulation in Kosovo

Kumkar, Lars - 2002

state sovereignty for electricity regulation and a wide-reaching market opening for private investors and electricity …

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Legal uncertainty: A selective deterrent

Lang, Matthias - 2014

I show that legal uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty about the legality of a specific action, has positive welfare effects. Legal uncertainty works as a screening device provided that the threshold of legality is uncertain. The uncertainty discourages controversial actions, while it encourages...

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Antitrust for Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

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Short-term Impacts of the GDPR on Firm Performance

Koski, Heli; Valmari, Nelli - 2020

-term impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on European companies' financial performance.Our empirical analysis …

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Antitrust Failures: The Internet Giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study

Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009

limited by regulation largely to retail deposits and mortgages. Graphic television news pictures showed very long queues …

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Use of Long-term Auctions for Network Investment

McDaniel, Tanga; Neuhoff, Karsten - 2003

Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions. In our model the fraction of rights issued in the...

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Betriebliche Ausbildungsbeteiligung ‐ eine veränderte Anreizkonstellation durch die Handwerksnovelle 2004?

Thomä, Jörg - 2017

Mit der Untersuchung von Koch/Nielen (2016/2017) liegt erstmals eine Kausalanalyse zu den ausbildungsseitigen Effekten der Handwerksnovelle 2004 vor. Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert die diesbezüglichen Kernergebnisse. Auf Basis eines alternativen Interpretationsansatzes wird versucht, einen...

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Privacy and Big Data: The need for a multi-stakeholder approach for developing an appropriate privacy regulation in the age of Big Data

Will, Matthias Georg - 2015

This paper presents a multi-stakeholder approach for developing an appropriate privacy regulation in the age of big … regulation. We analyze a dysfunctional mutual excludability between the suggestions of the supporters of a regulation … orchestrated by governments, and the supporters of internet self-regulation. (2) To over-come this conflict, we argue that the …

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