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, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues — the European …
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Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory … subject to the jurisdiction of the antitrust statutes, with potential enforcement by the Antitrust Division and the FTC and …
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economics of regulation, it then points out generic information and transaction cost problems of regulatory policy making. An … competencies for the regulation of the European network industries. …
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Chile, as most Latin American countries, inherited the language, religion, and the institutions from 16th century Spanish conquerors. Most institutions have not changed since. This paper examines the institutional and economic structure of the State in Chile. It concludes that in several...
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We study an industry in which an upstream monopolist supplies an essential input at a regulated price to several downstream firms. Legal unbundling means that a downstream firm owns the upstream firm but this upstream firm is legally independent and maximizes its own upstream profits. We allow...
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suggests that consumers may benefit most from legal unbundling with strong regulation and parts of ownership given to a …
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businesses operate and, if any, the degree (and form) of the regulation of exclusively provided services. Secondly, and in … competitive environment. If competition is introduced without the accompanying proper regulation of incumbent behavior, the … directives in the national legal system. The current state of regulation in the Czech Republic is far from desired. …
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A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation … principles. Before analysing these proposals, this paper describes the specific requirements for regulation of the railway sector …
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We provide an efficiency justification for the imposition of the uniform pricing constraint in universal service obligations (USO), where USO are defined as a set of constraints imposed on firms belonging to a network industry. In addition to the uniform pricing (UP) constraint, which is an...
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