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- A New Route for Telecom Deregulation
- In most telephone markets, incumbent companies still dominate the "last mile"- the connections between customers and the rest of the network. Over the past decade, regulators have tried to break that bottleneck by making it easier for alternative technologies, such as mobile wireless, cable, and voice over Internet Protocol VOIP,...
- White papers
- Debunking the Myth of Labor Market Deregulation
- If you believe labor market deregulation is a good for business, you may want to check out the Bank for International Settlements working paper, "The Global Upward Trend in the Profit Share." Researchers found that profit share has been increasing all over the world, and that at least 14 of the 19 countries examined...
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, And Entrepreneurship
- This paper study how US branch banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data from the US Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for...
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Economics And Politics Of Alternative Institutional Reforms
- This paper compares the economic consequences and political feasibility of reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry deregulation and improving contractual enforcement legal reform. Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of firms entrepreneurship and the average quality of management meritocracy. Legal reform also reduces financial constraints on entry, but...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Deregulation And Productivity Growth: A Study Of Indian Commercial Banking
- This paper examines the impact of regulatory reform on the performance of Indian commercial banks. Using a balanced panel data set covering from the beginning of the deregulation period (1992) to the last few years (2004) and employing a DEA Data Envelopment Analysis -based Malmquist index of total factor productivity...
- White papers 2006-12-14
- Establishing Public Policy as a Primary Cause of Engineering Failure: Did Market Deregulation Lead to the North American 'Blackout', August 14th 2003?
- On the 14th August 2003, a complex combination of latent problems and catalytic events led to a domino-effect in which 50 million people suffered some interruption to their power supplies. Losses have been estimated between $5-10 billion. It is, therefore, one of the most wide reaching and serious 'blackouts' in...
- White papers 2006-02-03
- Regulatory Risk, Market Risk And Capital Structure: Evidence From U.S. Electric Utilities
- There is a sharp contrast when one compares firm leverage ratios between US and British electric utilities, which have both been deregulated in the past decade. In the US, leverage ratios have been declining while in the UK, they show a marked increase. To better understand the decline in leverage...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Enterprise Management and Support in the Telecommunications Industry
- Companies in the telecommunications industry face a number of challenges as market saturation, slow uptake of new services, and the economic downturn increase pressures to cut costs and improve efficiency. Industry deregulation has led to intense competition and rising customer expectations. To succeed in this environment, telecommunications companies require solutions...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Telecom Deregulation And Telecom Competition In World Markets
- Japanese telecommunication firms entered the 1990s as major players in the global market. The 1990s coincided with an explosion in global demand for telecommunications products. Japanese firms, however, witnessed a strong decline in global competitiveness over the 1990s. We explore the factors accounting for this change in fortune focusing on...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Deregulation of the US Electric Power Industry and the Opportunities It Creates for Private Equity
- Fundamental upheaval in the electric power industry is creating unprecedented private equity investment opportunities. One major contributing factor is the deregulation of the United States power markets. According to the article, since the advent of deregulation, the private equity industry has assumed a lead role in taking advantage of these...
- White papers 2004-07-22
- Entrepreneurship and the Deregulation of Banking
- This paper presents evidence that banking deregulation led to decreases in entrepreneurship in some U.S. regions, and to increases in others. This is contrary to recent research that found an unambiguous positive relationship. This paper reexamines this finding and uses the Black-Strahan model to demonstrate that when the effects of...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Deregulation of the Medical Equipment Industry in Japan - Expansion of Market Access
- It is extremely difficult to introduce new, cost-effective medical equipment products into the Japanese market. There are different reasons for this difficulty discussed in the paper. Solving these problems is important not only for the medical equipment industry, but also for the Japanese government. Reducing the cost of health care...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Deregulation, Entry Of MNCs, Public Technology Procurement And Innovation Capability
- India has a sizeable telecom equipment manufacturing industry. The industry, which was originally dominated by just one state-owned corporation, has now been deregulated. Currently the industry consist of twelve SMEs, which manufacture small and medium switches and seven large firms of which five are TNCs manufacturing large switches). The country...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Deregulation Process, Governance Structures and Efficiency: The U.S. Electric Utility Sector
- This paper is an empirical assessment of the comparative efficiency of governance structures in an environment marked by high uncertainty. This paper analyzes the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric utilities in the United States. It also argues that there are transitory costs linked to...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Research Calms the Waves of Deregulation for One Natural Gas Company
- When one of the Southeast’s largest natural gas distribution companies found itself in a quickly deregulated market, it turned to Polaris Market Research Inc. for help in navigating the uncharted waters. Atlanta Gas Light had only eight months to transform itself from a product and services company into a services...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Trading & Risk Management Focus in North America
- Article explains that deregulation of the energy industry has been characterized as the re-allocation of risk within that industry. While it certainly has much broader implications, deregulation has definitely altered the exposure faced by all firms in the electric power and natural gas fields. As firms adjust to these changes,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Risk Management: Safety Blanket or Trading Weapon?
- The article is about the risk management as deregulation in the global electricity market is taking on all the characteristics of a capricious drunk. In some countries it.s surging ahead, in others it is unsure whether it is coming or going, and many more it is tottering around in grave...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Deregulation And Merger Enforcement In The Natural Gas Industry
- An effective national energy policy is crucial to the efficient operation of the American economy and the maintenance of a high standard of living. The executive and legislative branches quite rightly set this national policy. Policy makers have clearly chosen the path of deregulation for the energy sector as a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Failure Of Good Intentions: The Worldcom Fraud And The Collapse Of American Telecommunications After Deregulation
- This paper analyzes WorldCom's fraud, bankruptcy, and the decision of its Triennial Review of mandatory unbundling. To date, policymakers and scholars have failed to recognize how those topics are interrelated. The United States has spent seven years trying to deregulate telecommunications. It also discusses administrative cost of deregulation, which has...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Oligopoly Deregulation and the Taxation of Commodities
- This paper examine the interplay between market structure and the form that commodity taxation should take in a world in which firms produce differentiated products and so are able to exert some degree of market power. Our analysis takes explicit account of two important recent developments that carry significant implications...
- White papers 2002-12-30
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