Without regulation, market power in mobile termination is likely to result in mobile termination rates (MTRs) in excess of costs and cross-subsidised prices for mobile subscription/handsets. Mobile network operators (MNOs) argue that subsidisation is efficient, being justified by, inter alia, a...

Social structures influence the spread of aquaculture and the particular ecological demands of this industry, which mediate the prospects of fisheries conservation. We assessed the effects of trade in food and fisheries commodities, the level of economic development, aquaculture production, and...

Under its recently proposed Clean Power Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gives states several “building blocks” to choose from to reduce their power plants’ CO2 emissions, including improving plants’ heat rate efficiency. However, skeptics suggest that precisely...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>Global climate change is perhaps the most serious problem the world faces. Despite its severity, mainstream economic approaches to addressing the problem fail to get to the root cause — the capitalist global economy — falling instead for ‘the Midas...</p>

Handset subsidies are prominent in many mobile markets, and are often justified on the basis of network externalities arising from new subscribers joining with a benefit to existing subscribers in addition to their private valuation. An associated argument is that a tax on termination to fund...