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The Political Economy of Deregulation in the U.S. Gas Distribution Market [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Causes and consequences of deregulation and restructuring in utility markets in US states continue to draw heated debate. It is unclear why different utilities choose retail restructuring, price caps or sliding-scale plans. Various economic and political reasons lend themselves to explaining regulatory decisions.
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Landcare in the deregulated rural economy of New Zealand

Rural Society, 1995
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Economies of Traffic Density in the Deregulated Airline Industry

The Journal of Law and Economics, 1994
This article estimates a structural model of competition among hub-and-spoke airlines in order to measure the strength of economies of traffic density on individual route segments. We find that economies of density were strong during the sample period (fourth quarter 1985), stronger than previous estimates by Douglas Caves, Laurits Christensen, and ...
Brueckner, Jan K., Spiller, Pablo T.
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The Political Economy of Deregulation in Indonesia

Asian Survey, 1989
The 1980s will be recorded in Indonesia's history as the decade of deregulation, a time when measures to deregulate the economy were undertaken as part of the broader effort toward economic structural reform. But the significance of the deregulation policy perhaps lies in its systemic effects and longer-term implications for the country's economic ...
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The Political Economy of Employment Deregulation

Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2003
The article discusses the politics of the labor market reform aimed at employment deregulation and decrease in firing costs. Such reform promises to benefit most of the population and is expected to affect positively job creation and aggregate employment.
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Deregulating the Economy and Regulating Morality: The Political Economy of Censorship

Studies in Political Economy, 1985
When the Fraser Committee on Pornography and Prostitution was established by the federal government in 1983, the civil libertarian community had reason to be alarmed. The a priori linking of pornography and prostitution was itself indicative of a casual disregard of the line between thought and action, belief and behaviour, and fantasy and reality ...
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The Impact of APROC on Taiwan’s Economy: A CGEAnalysis of Deregulation

Asian Economic Journal, 2002
The Taiwan Government defines the Asia‐Pacific Regional Operations Center (APROC) project as designed ‘to transform Taiwan into a regional economic center through overall liberalization and internationalization’. From this definition and the targets of APROC as set by the Taiwan Government, it is not difficult to see that deregulation is one of the ...
Shiu‐Tung Wang, Ji Chou, Nai‐Fong Kuo   +2 more
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Changes in utilization and productivity in a deregulating economy

Journal of Development Economics, 1998
This paper provides an estimate of the production cost of losses in official working hours and of utilization-adjusted productivity growth using robust methods on a panel of industry-region data for Indian manufacturing in the 1980s. Time losses such as arise on account of power cuts and materials shortages appear to have cost the economy a sixth of ...
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Deregulation, Debt and Downturn in the UK Economy

National Institute Economic Review, 1991
The boom of the later 1980s was not due solely to financial institutions greater freedom to lend to the private sector. This was activated by over-optimism about the economy's performance. These two influences combined to cause the ‘over-heating’ for which the current recession is seen as the cure.
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Deregulation, money, and the economy [PDF]

, 1991
An examination of the behavior of bank deposit yields and a discussion of some implications for deposit variability and for the interpretation of money growth in the wake of deregulation and other changes in the financial industry in the early 1980s.
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