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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:49
2019-09-27T08:51:19Z
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Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´
van den Hauwe, Ludwig
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
B53 - Austrian
P34 - Financial Economics
N23 - Europe: Pre-1913
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
N24 - Europe: 1913-
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
K39 - Other
E00 - General
E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems
G0 - General
K0 - General
P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
This article reviews the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto´s book `Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos´ which first appeared in Spain in 1998.
2006-10-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49/1/MPRA_paper_49.pdf
van den Hauwe, Ludwig (2006): Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´. Forthcoming in: New Perspectives on Political Economy , Vol. 2, No. 2 (November 2006): pp. 135-141.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:120
2019-09-27T04:53:48Z
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7375626A656374733D50:5033:503334
7375626A656374733D48:4831:483131
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/120/
The Uneasy Case for Fractional-Reserve Free Banking
van den Hauwe, Ludwig
E50 - General
E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles
E42 - Monetary Systems ; Standards ; Regimes ; Government and the Monetary System ; Payment Systems
B53 - Austrian
K39 - Other
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
P34 - Financial Economics
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Since a few decades several sub-disciplines within economics have witnessed a reorientation towards institutional analysis. This development has in particular also affected the fields of macroeconomics and monetary theory where it has led to several proposals for far-reaching financial and monetary reform. One of the more successful of these proposals advocates a fractional-reserve free banking system, that is, a system with no central bank, but with permission for the banks to operate with a fractional reserve. This article exposes several conceptual flaws in this proposal. In particular several claims of the fractional-reserve free bankers with respect to the purported working characteristics of this system are criticized from the perspective of economic theory. In particular, the claim that a fractional-reserve free banking system would lead to the disappearance of the business cycle is recognized as false. Furthermore an invisible-hand analysis is performed, reinforcing the conclusion that fractional-reserve free banking is incompatible with the ethical and juridical principles underlying a free society.
2006-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/120/1/MPRA_paper_120.pdf
van den Hauwe, Ludwig (2006): The Uneasy Case for Fractional-Reserve Free Banking. Forthcoming in: Procesos de Mercado Revista Europea de Economía Política , Vol. III, No. 2 (December 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:198
2019-09-26T16:23:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/198/
Competition Policy in Turkey
Mumcu, Ayşe
Zenginobuz, Unal
L44 - Antitrust Policy and Public Enterprises, Nonprofit Institutions, and Professional Organizations
L40 - General
K21 - Antitrust Law
We review the enforcement of competition policy and the activities of Turkish Competition Authority during 1997-2000. Descriptive statistics are provided on the caseload handled, such as types of anti-competitive behavior investigated, breakdown of investigations by industry, violations found, and penalties imposed. Competition Authority has been stretched in terms of manpower as it has faced a flood of applications in addition to having to develop the necessary secondary legislation. The most salient cases handled concerned infringement of competition, while a rather lenient position was taken in authorizing mergers and acquisitions. The silence of the Turkish Competition Law regarding public undertakings is a potential source of problem for aligning competition policies with those of EU.
2001-11-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/198/1/MPRA_paper_198.pdf
Mumcu, Ayşe and Zenginobuz, Unal (2001): Competition Policy in Turkey. Published in: Conference Proceedings, ERF Eighth Annual Conference, Cairo, Egypt (January 2002)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:230
2019-09-26T21:56:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/230/
The External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision : Helping the Regulator Avoid Regulatory Capture.
Ojo, Marianne
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
The incoming Labour administration in 1997 caused a stir when it gave the Bank of England additional monetary policy powers but removed the Bank’s powers to regulate banking. Up till 1997, banking regulation had been the function of the Bank of England while other areas of financial services had been regulated by bodies such as: The Securities and Investment Board (for investment business) and the Department of Trade and Industry (for insurance). Section 21 of the Bank of England Act 1998 effectively transferred banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority (then known as the Securities and Investments Board). This paper amongst other objectives, aims to explore how the Financial Services Authority ( the FSA) as a regulator, could benefit from the expertise of the external auditor as a middleman, to avoid regulatory capture. As an efficient system of accountability would also help prevent regulatory capture, the issue of accountability will also be discussed. A consideration of developments leading to the adoption of a single regulator in the UK, will illustrate how the type of regulator can contribute to knowledge of how the external auditor can assist the regulator. Furthermore, not only does this paper consider how the introduction of the FSA has improved transparency and accountability within the banking regulatory and supervisory system, but also the claim that the external auditor could further employ his expertise to help the regulator avoid regulatory capture.
2005-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/230/1/MPRA_paper_230.pdf
Ojo, Marianne (2005): The External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision : Helping the Regulator Avoid Regulatory Capture.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:346
2019-09-27T08:52:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/346/
Public Ignorance and Estate Tax Repeal: The Effect of Partisan Differences and Survey Incentives
Krupnikov, Yanna
Levine, Adam S.
Lupia, Arthur
Prior, Markus
H20 - General
H30 - General
K10 - General
We re-examine whether the broad support for repeal of the estate tax is a result of citizen ignorance. We find that increasing information about the estate tax or politics in general has very different effects on Republicans and Democrats. While high and low-information Republicans support estate tax repeal, Democratic support is higher among those who know less. However, most highly-informed people in both parties support repeal. We also show that standard surveys overestimate the extent of misinformation about the estate tax. Therefore, “ignorance” is not a compelling explanation of why so many people support estate tax repeal.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/346/1/MPRA_paper_346.pdf
Krupnikov, Yanna and Levine, Adam S. and Lupia, Arthur and Prior, Markus (2006): Public Ignorance and Estate Tax Repeal: The Effect of Partisan Differences and Survey Incentives. Forthcoming in: National Tax Journal , Vol. 59, No. September 2006 (2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:500
2019-09-28T09:48:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/500/
Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
Di Tella, Rafael
Dubra, Juan
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
K14 - Criminal Law
E62 - Fiscal Policy
P16 - Political Economy
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know from previous work that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective is to study the joint determination of these three features (beliefs, punitiveness and economic system) in a way that replicates the observed empirical patterns. We present a model where beliefs determine the types of contracts that firms offer and whether workers exert effort. Some workers become criminals, depending on their luck in the labor market, the expected punishment, and an individual shock that we call "meanness". It is this meanness level that a penal system based on "retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the "American" (as opposed to the "French") equilibrium, belief in the "American dream" is commonplace, workers exert effort, there are high powered contracts (and income is unequally distributed) and punishments are harsh. Economists who believe that deterrence (rather than retribution) shapes punishment can interpret the meanness parameter as pessimism about future economic opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge.
2006-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/500/1/MPRA_paper_500.pdf
Di Tella, Rafael and Dubra, Juan (2006): Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream".
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1145
2019-09-28T12:46:08Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1145/
Decomposing violence: terrorist murder in the twentieth century in the U.S.
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
N41 - U.S. ; Canada: Pre-1913
K14 - Criminal Law
C13 - Estimation: General
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the United States (1900-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, alternation in power, social, and political unrest overseas as wars, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks in the country. The cyclical component estimated shows that, 9/11 2001 terrorist attacks occurred, two years after the end of the last declining cycle of 1994-1999. The estimated cyclical terrorist murder component warns, that terrorist attacks in U.S., soil from 1923 to 2004, historically occur in, and around the vicinity of the turning points, of whether a declining, or ascending cycle, and so, it must be used in future research to construct a model for explaining the causal reasons for its movement across time, and for forecasting cyclical terrorist murder, and terrorist attacks.
2006-06-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1145/1/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2006): Decomposing violence: terrorist murder in the twentieth century in the U.S.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1148
2019-10-02T04:41:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1148/
Detection avoidance and deterrence: some paradoxical arithmetics
Langlais, Eric
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
K40 - General
This paper extends Malik's (1990) analysis to the case where criminals'
avoidance efforts and public expenditures in the detection of criminals are
strategic complements in the aggregate technology of control of illegal
behaviours. In this set up, we show that whenever criminals' avoidance
efforts are more sensitive to the frequency than to the severity of
sanctions, it is always socially efficient to set the fine at the maximal
possible level. However, several paradoxical consequences occur: there may
exist overdeterrence at optimum; more repressive policies lead to less
arrestations of offenders while more crimes may be committed; at the same
time, the society may be closer to the first best number of crimes.
2006-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1148/1/MPRA_paper_1148.pdf
Langlais, Eric (2006): Detection avoidance and deterrence: some paradoxical arithmetics.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1149
2019-10-01T21:00:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1149/
Criminals and risk attitude
Langlais, Eric
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
K40 - General
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
K41 - Litigation Process
We show that whatever the representation of criminals' preferences under risk, the assumption according to which they are strongly risk averse individuals is not consistent with the available observations establishing that criminals are more sensitive to shifts in the probability of sanction than to changes in the level of the sanction. We suggest that: 1/ while a weakening of the risk aversion assumption may be useful, the risk seeking assumption may be better suited for criminals; 2/ the relevant assumption regarding criminals' risk attitude may depend on the policy instruments that models of crime deterrence take into account; 3/ additional experiments, including both monetary penalties and non monetary sanctions would be useful in order to learn more about their sensibility to probability, monetary and non monetary sanctions.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1149/1/MPRA_paper_1149.pdf
Langlais, Eric (2006): Criminals and risk attitude.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1150
2019-09-28T04:29:45Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1150/
Indemnisation des préjudices et fréquence des procès en présence d'une asymétrie d'informaion sur l'aversion au risque des parties
Langlais, Eric
K10 - General
K41 - Litigation Process
K13 - Tort Law and Product Liability ; Forensic Economics
K40 - General
K4 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior
The paper addresses the issue of the impact of asymmetric information
on risk aversion of litigant parties in a model à la Bebchuk. First we
study the case where the plaintif is the informed party, and
characterize the equilibrium with and without a pretrial negociation
round. Then, we focuse on the comparative statics of the model and
analyse the role of the choice of a cost allocation rule. Finally, we
discuss several extensions: the case where the defendant is the
informed party, the influence of the assumption on the representation
of preferences, and the role of self-serving bias.
2005-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1150/1/MPRA_paper_1150.pdf
Langlais, Eric (2005): Indemnisation des préjudices et fréquence des procès en présence d'une asymétrie d'informaion sur l'aversion au risque des parties.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1151
2019-10-06T07:19:24Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1151/
Crowding-out in productive and redistributive rent seeking
Giuseppe, Dari-Mattiacci
Bruno, Lovat
Eric, Langlais
Francesco, Parisi
K00 - General
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
C72 - Noncooperative Games
This paper presents a general rent-seeking model in which participants
decide on entry before choosing their levels of efforts. The conventional
wisdom in the rent-seeking literature suggests that the rent dissipation
increases with the number of potential participants and with their
productivity of effort. In this paper, we show that this result of the
rent-seeking literature is far from general and applies only when
participants are relatively weak and enter the game with certainty. In the
presence of strong competitors, the expected total dissipation actually
decreases, since participation in the game is less frequent. We further
consider the impact of competitors' exit option, distinguishing between
\textquotedblright redistributive rent-seeking\textquotedblright\ and
\textquotedblright productive rent-seeking\textquotedblright\ situations. In
redistributive rent-seeking, no social loss results from the fact that all
competitors exit the race. In productive rent-seeking, instead, lack of
participation creates a social loss (the \textquotedblright lost
treasure\textquotedblright\ effect), since valuable rents are left
unexploited. We show that the lost-treasure effect perfectly counterbalances
the reduction in rent dissipation due to competitors' exit. Hence, unlike
redistributive rent-seeking, in productive rent-seeking the total social
loss remains equal to the entire rent even when parties grow stronger or the
number of players increases.
2004-10-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1151/1/MPRA_paper_1151.pdf
Giuseppe, Dari-Mattiacci and Bruno, Lovat and Eric, Langlais and Francesco, Parisi (2004): Crowding-out in productive and redistributive rent seeking.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1158
2019-09-26T22:26:29Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1158/
When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws
Bergen, Mark
Levy, Daniel
Ray, Sourav
Rubin, Paul
Zeliger, Ben
L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure ; Size Distribution of Firms
K20 - General
L81 - Retail and Wholesale Trade ; e-Commerce
E31 - Price Level ; Inflation ; Deflation
Item pricing laws (IPLs) require a price tag on every item sold by a retailer. We study IPLs and assess their efficiency by quantifying their costs and comparing them to previously documented benefits. On the cost side, we posit that IPLs should lead to higher prices because they increase the cost of pricing as well as the cost of price adjustment. We test this prediction using data collected from large supermarket chains in the Tri-State area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, which offer a unique setting because these states vary in their use of IPLs, but otherwise offer geographical proximity with each other and similar markets, supermarket chains, and socioeconomic environments. We find that IPL store prices are higher by about 20¢–25¢ or 8.0%–9.6% per item on average, in comparison to non-IPL stores. As a control, we use data from stores that are exempt from IPL requirements (because they use electronic shelf labels), and find that their prices fall between IPL and non-IPL store prices. To assess the efficiency of IPLs, we compare these costs to existing measures of the benefits of IPLs which are based on measurements of the frequency and the magnitude of pricing errors the IPLs are supposed to prevent. We find that the costs of IPLs are an order of magnitude higher than the upper bound of these estimate benefits.
2006-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1158/1/MPRA_paper_1158.pdf
Bergen, Mark and Levy, Daniel and Ray, Sourav and Rubin, Paul and Zeliger, Ben (2006): When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1191
2019-10-01T04:46:40Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4933
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1191/
La Sociedad Civil, el bienestar social y las transformaciones del Estado en Costa Rica
Reuben, Sergio
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
J80 - General
H50 - General
I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being
I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
J01 - Labor Economics: General
P16 - Political Economy
This paper select the theoretical point of view of the “Regulation” to analyze the currents chan-ges in the Costa Rica’s State. This point of view is used to explain the orientation of the social policies after the economic shock of the 80’s and the reorientation of the costarrican’s Welfare State or “estado desarrollista” into a neo-liberal state incapable to attend the development re-quirements in the historical and social conditions of Latin America. Ends with a abstracts pro-posal for establish a new social contract.
2004-07-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1191/1/MPRA_paper_1191.pdf
Reuben, Sergio (2004): La Sociedad Civil, el bienestar social y las transformaciones del Estado en Costa Rica. Published in: Reflexiones , Vol. 83, No. 1 (2004): pp. 21-30.
es
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1293
2019-09-26T12:42:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1293/
The External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision : Helping the Regulator Avoid Regulatory Capture.
Ojo, Marianne
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
The incoming Labour administration in 1997 caused a stir when it gave the Bank of England additional monetary policy powers but removed the Bank’s powers to regulate banking. Up till 1997, banking regulation had been the function of the Bank of England while other areas of financial services had been regulated by bodies such as: The Securities and Investment Board (for investment business) and the Department of Trade and Industry (for insurance). Section 21 of the Bank of England Act 1998 effectively transferred banking supervision to the Financial Services Authority (then known as the Securities and Investments Board). This paper amongst other objectives, aims to explore how the Financial Services Authority ( the FSA) as a regulator, could benefit from the expertise of the external auditor as a middleman, to avoid regulatory capture. As an efficient system of accountability would also help prevent regulatory capture, the issue of accountability will also be discussed. A consideration of developments leading to the adoption of a single regulator in the UK, will illustrate how the type of regulator can contribute to knowledge of how the external auditor can assist the regulator. Furthermore, not only does this paper consider how the introduction of the FSA has improved transparency and accountability within the banking regulatory and supervisory system, but also the claim that the external auditor could further employ his expertise to help the regulator avoid regulatory capture.
2005-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1293/1/MPRA_paper_1293.pdf
Ojo, Marianne (2005): The External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision : Helping the Regulator Avoid Regulatory Capture.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1444
2019-09-28T06:11:58Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1444/
The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income
Nakazato, Minoru
Ramseyer, J. Mark
Rasmusen, Eric
K40 - General
Using micro-level data on attorney incomes in 2004, we reconstruct the industrial organization of the Japanese legal services industry. These data suggest a somewhat bifurcated bar, with two sources of unusually high income: talent in Tokyo, and scarcity elsewhere. The most talented would-be lawyers (those with the highest opportunity costs) pass the bar-exam equivalent on one of their first tries or abandon the effort. If they pass, they tend to opt for careers in Tokyo that involve complex litigation and business transactions. This work places a premium on their talent, and from it they earn appropriately high incomes. The less talented face lower opportunity costs, and willingly spend many years studying for the exam. If they eventually pass, they disproportionately forego the many amenities available to professional families in Tokyo and opt instead for careers in the under-lawyered provinces. There, they earn scarcity and monopoly rents not available in the far more competitive Tokyo market.
2006-09-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1444/1/MPRA_paper_1444.pdf
Nakazato, Minoru and Ramseyer, J. Mark and Rasmusen, Eric (2006): The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1512
2019-10-01T18:06:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1512/
First, the women and children: why it is indispensable to give political weight to the under-age ones: the perspective of Luigi Campiglio
Reggiani, Tommaso
K40 - General
Prof. Luigi Campiglio has endorsed a test, entitled Prima le donne e i bambini (First the women and children), which reflects the importance of women and children for the entire society. Meeting this test requires that under-age children be able to exercise political weight, which can only be accomplished by allowing them to vote. They should be able to do so by giving their mothers the power to vote on their behalves, through exercise of a power of attorney.
2006-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1512/1/MPRA_paper_1512.pdf
Reggiani, Tommaso (2006): First, the women and children: why it is indispensable to give political weight to the under-age ones: the perspective of Luigi Campiglio.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1519
2019-10-04T05:04:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1519/
Prima le donne e i bambini. Il peso politico dei minorenni: come e perché è indispensabile farlo emergere. La prospettiva secondo Luigi Campiglio.
Reggiani, Tommaso
I38 - Government Policy ; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
I0 - General
K40 - General
Prof. Luigi Campiglio has endorsed a test, entitled Prima le donne e i bambini (First the women and children), which reflects the importance of women and children for the entire society. Meeting this test requires that under-age children be able to exercise political weight, which can only be accomplished by allowing them to vote. They should be able to do so by giving their mothers the power to vote on their behalves, through exercise of a power of attorney.
2006-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1519/1/MPRA_paper_1519.pdf
Reggiani, Tommaso (2006): Prima le donne e i bambini. Il peso politico dei minorenni: come e perché è indispensabile farlo emergere. La prospettiva secondo Luigi Campiglio.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1575
2019-09-30T14:42:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1575/
Too much or not enough crimes? On the ambiguous effects of repression
Langlais, Eric
D62 - Externalities
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H57 - Procurement
K40 - General
D60 - General
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal enforcement of the penal code when criminals invest in a specific class of avoidance activities termed dissembling activities (i.e. self-protection efforts undertaken by criminals to hedge their illegal gains in case of detection and arrestation). We show that the penal law has two screening effects: it separates the population of potential criminals between those who commit the crime and those who do not, and in the former group, between those who undertake dissembling efforts and those who do not. Then, we show that it is never optimal to use less than the maximal fine in contrast to what may occur with avoidance detection (i.e. efforts undertaken in order to reduce the probability of arrestation: Malik (1990)); and furthermore, that the optimal penal code may imply overdeterrence. Finally, we show that any reform of the penal code has ambiguous effects when criminals undertake dissembling activities which are a by-product of illegal activities, since increasing the maximum possible fine may increase or decrease the number of crimes committed and may increase or decrease the proportion of illegal gains hedged by criminals.
2007-01-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1575/1/MPRA_paper_1575.pdf
Langlais, Eric (2007): Too much or not enough crimes? On the ambiguous effects of repression.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1648
2019-09-27T13:34:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1648/
Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption
Levy, Daniel
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
H26 - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
D30 - General
B14 - Socialist ; Marxist
E64 - Incomes Policy ; Price Policy
P20 - General
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
P26 - Political Economy ; Property Rights
H40 - General
Based on first-hand account, this paper offers evidence on price setting and price adjustment mechanisms that were illegally employed under the Soviet planning and rationing regime. The evidence is anecdotal, and is based on personal experience during the years 1960–1971 in the Republic of Georgia. The description of the social organization of the black markets and other illegal economic activities that I offer depicts the creative and sophisticated ways that were used to confront the shortages created by the inefficient centrally-planned command economic price system with its distorted relative prices. The evidence offers a glimpse of quite explicit micro-level evidence on various types of behavior and corruption that were common in Georgia. Rent-seeking behavior, however, led to emergence of remarkably well-functioning and efficiency enhancing black markets. The evidence, thus, underscores once again the role of incentives in a rent-seeking society.
2007-01-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1648/1/MPRA_paper_1648.pdf
Levy, Daniel (2007): Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1731
2019-10-03T17:50:42Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1731/
Simulating the enforcement policies for irregular sector in the Italian labour reform
Bonaventura, Luigi
C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
In this paper an agent-based model (abm) will be used to study the effects
of enforcement policy in Italy: d.lgs. 124/2004. Three kinds of policy will be tested in the model: control, sanction and legitimacy-regulation. The first policy is based on the number of inspectors present in the economy; the second is defined by the magnitude of punishment; the third is measured by the social legitimacy of regulation. This simulation has produced a number of results, the most important of which are: the negligible influence of control increasing to enforce irregularity; the strong influence of the level of punishment on the irregularity ratio in all Italian areas;
the good political choice to increase the social legitimacy to regulation in promoting regularity.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1731/1/MPRA_paper_1731.pdf
Bonaventura, Luigi (2006): Simulating the enforcement policies for irregular sector in the Italian labour reform.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1958
2019-09-26T19:00:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1958/
Political economy of anti-corruption reform in two-candidate elections
Evrenk, Haldun
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
We analyze the effectiveness of some commonly discussed anti--corruption reforms on political corruption, using a theoretical model of competition between two candidates in a probabilistic voting setup. Candidates, who may differ both in their ability to produce the public good, and popularity with voters, propose a tax rate and a public good level. The budget constraint implies that taxes collected must equal the sum of funds used in public good production plus funds stolen by the elected politician. We identify the conditions under which constitutional constraints on policies, higher penalties for corruption, and higher wages for elected politicians increase (or decrease) voters' welfare. We discuss how the asymmetric information and the rigidity of constitutions reduce the effectiveness of the reforms, and how distributional effects of reforms may reduce the voters' support for a welfare--improving reform. Finally, we argue that effective reforms may not be proposed by both corrupt and honest politicians.
2002-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/1958/1/MPRA_paper_1958.pdf
Evrenk, Haldun (2002): Political economy of anti-corruption reform in two-candidate elections.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2008
2019-09-26T20:57:11Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2008/
The introduction of an appeals court in Dutch tax litigation
Kamphorst, Jurjen J.A.
Van Velthoven, Ben C.J.
K41 - Litigation Process
Since January 1, 2005, the Dutch tax litigation comprises an appeals court. Before 2005, it had but one court of instance. That means that now, after a court of first instance has given its verdict in a tax dispute, an unsatisfied party may appeal to a higher instance, where this was impossible before. In this paper we investigate which consequences introducing an appeals court has for the way tax payers and the tax administration solve their disputes. We focus on the following questions. Are more or less tax payers willing to go to court to solve the dispute? Is it more or less difficult for parties to agree upon a settlement? Which appeal rate can we expect? What is the role of trust in the courts in the answers to the questions above?
2006-04-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2008/1/MPRA_paper_2008.pdf
Kamphorst, Jurjen J.A. and Van Velthoven, Ben C.J. (2006): The introduction of an appeals court in Dutch tax litigation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2288
2019-09-27T04:49:30Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2288/
Who cares about Director Independence?
Paolo, Santella
Carlo, Drago
Giulia, Paone
K22 - Business and Securities Law
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
K0 - General
G3 - Corporate Finance and Governance
In this article we have expanded the analysis of the new dataset we created in Santella, Paone, Drago (2005) which analysed and quantified corporate disclosure on directors formally identified as independent by the forty Italian Blue Chips. We find here a general low level of compliance with independence requirements for both financial and non-financial companies, particularly with regard to the two key independence criteria of not having too many concurring commitments and not having business relationships with the company or an associated company. We also find that financial companies show a lower level of compliance than non-financial ones and are connected with each other and with a few non-financial companies through networks of cross-directorships: two directors (one independent and one executive) who also sit at the same time on another company board. Finally, those non-financial companies that have a relatively fragmented shareholder structure tend to be characterised by higher levels of compliance and disclosure (but not always by lower levels of not compliance) than tightly-controlled non-financial companies, presumably because of sensitivity to a larger pool of small shareholders. Peculiarly, financial companies with fragmented shareholder structure tend to be characterised by low disclosure levels, although such companies are also subject to strong financial supervision.
2007-03-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2288/1/MPRA_paper_2288.pdf
Paolo, Santella and Carlo, Drago and Giulia, Paone (2007): Who cares about Director Independence?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2325
2019-09-27T11:22:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2325/
Corporate governance of banks: the current state of the debate.
Polo, Andrea
K22 - Business and Securities Law
G28 - Government Policy and Regulation
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
G34 - Mergers ; Acquisitions ; Restructuring ; Corporate Governance
G18 - Government Policy and Regulation
Since banks are among the most important sources not only of finance but also of external governance for firms, the corporate governance of banks is a crucial factor for growth and development. Despite its importance, this topic has been explored only by a few studies. While some authors support, with different arguments in the course of time, the specificity of banks, other authors, among whom Ross Levine and his co-authors from the World Bank, question heavily the present banking regulatory framework. The debate on the corporate governance of banks has a direct bearing on the current discussions on the future of banking regulatory design: should the regulatory intervention be the most important corporate control mechanism in banking or should regulators focus on introducing incentives for appropriate market behaviour?
2007-03-19
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2325/1/MPRA_paper_2325.pdf
Polo, Andrea (2007): Corporate governance of banks: the current state of the debate.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2461
2019-09-28T04:41:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2461/
Merger Remedies at the European Commission: A Multinomial Logit Analysis
Bougette, Patrice
Turolla, Stéphane
L40 - General
K21 - Antitrust Law
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
This paper aims to build and empirically evaluate a discrete choice model of merger remedies as a basis for policy analysis. The database consists of 229 merger cases accepted in Phase I or Phase II of the European merger process between 1990 and 2005. We focus on the following question: Which merging firms' characteristics lead the European Commission to decide whether to require conditional acceptance? Although a lot of empirical studies have been carried out these last years, ours is distinguished by at least two original features. First, we explore determinant factors of the Commission's decisions with a neural network model differentiating cases accepted with or without remedies (either structural or behavioral). Secondly, we implement three multinomial logit models. We find that variables related to high market power lead more frequently to a remedy outcome, whatever the phase. Innovative industries such as energy, transportation and communications positively affect the probability of a behavioral remedy. Lastly, former Competition Commissioner Mario Monti's policy appears to be pro-remedy, i.e. seeking concessions from merging parties.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2461/1/MPRA_paper_2461.pdf
Bougette, Patrice and Turolla, Stéphane (2006): Merger Remedies at the European Commission: A Multinomial Logit Analysis.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2501
2019-10-03T04:48:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2501/
P2P: From File Sharing to Meta-information Pooling
Dagiral, Eric
Dauphin, Florian
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K21 - Antitrust Law
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L96 - Telecommunications
P2P networks have mainly been used for downloading cultural goods. This sociological research focuses on the practices and norms of users and designers. Drawing on a qualitative survey, it explores the many ways sharing takes place. It looks at P2P networks as file sharing communities and probes the underpinnings of such file sharing. This article particularly scrutinizes the way in which users are brought together in communities founded on exploration and discovery. The latest developments seem to point towards a type of community chiefly based on exchanging meta-information.
2005-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2501/1/MPRA_paper_2501.pdf
Dagiral, Eric and Dauphin, Florian (2005): P2P: From File Sharing to Meta-information Pooling. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 59 (September 2005): pp. 35-51.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2513
2019-10-01T00:33:01Z
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Inter-Modal Competition and Telecommunications Policy in the United States
Shelanski, Howard A.
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K21 - Antitrust Law
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L96 - Telecommunications
This article discusses changes in the U.S. telecommunications market over the last decade and argues that increasing competitive substitution from wireless and internetbased communications has undermined the rationale for conventional monopoly regulation of incumbent local telephone carriers. The article suggests that the time is right to shift from a regime of a priori rules governing incumbent-form conduct to a regime of ex post competition enforcement.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2513/1/MPRA_paper_2513.pdf
Shelanski, Howard A. (2005): Inter-Modal Competition and Telecommunications Policy in the United States. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 60 (December 2005): pp. 15-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2515
2019-09-27T01:37:56Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2515/
Bundling, Differentiation, Alliances and Mergers: Convergence Strategies in U.S. Communication Markets
Bauer, Johannes M.
L90 - General
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L96 - Telecommunications
Convergence is a multi-facetted phenomenon affecting the technological basis of information and communication industries, the boundaries of existing and new markets, and the organization of service providers. Convergence in substitutes will tend to increase the intensity of competition but convergence in complements may have the opposite effect. Given the economics of advanced communication industries, convergence necessitates strategies to overcome the risk of commodification at the level of networks, applications, and services. The paper examines bundling, differentiation, alliances, and merger strategies adopted by North American service providers in response to convergence. Service providers'opportunities and risks in the emerging environment differ considerably, with cable and telephone service providers presently in stronger positions than wireless service providers, broadcasters, and satellite service providers. New entrants such as Vonage, Skype, Google, and Yahoo have high disruptive potential but remain disadvantaged without their own access networks.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2515/1/MPRA_paper_2515.pdf
Bauer, Johannes M. (2005): Bundling, Differentiation, Alliances and Mergers: Convergence Strategies in U.S. Communication Markets. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 60 : pp. 59-83.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2516
2019-09-27T08:32:32Z
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A New View of Scale and Scope in the Telecommunications Industry: Implications for Competition and Innovation
Bourdeau de Fontenay, Alain
Liebenau, Jonathan
Savin, Brian
L90 - General
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
Telecommunication economic analysis has largely relied upon a conventional economic framework that has its roots in neoclassical analysis that emerged almost a hundred years ago, and has contributed to reshaping the direction of economic policies by attacking the premises of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and providing far greater leeway to incumbents, as well as challenging the economic efficiency of new entrants. Common approaches based upon a large number of simplifying assumptions that include,for instance, the idea that the technology is exogenous. Such hypotheses make little sense at a conceptual level. In addition, this idea is largely contradicted by the short period during which the sector achieved some level of competition around the 1900's and 2000. Not only have economists not thought about any number of such hypotheses, but they have also failed to consider how they might have an impact on their analysis.
Evaluating a number of such issues in this paper, we are able to show how conventional economic analysis, uncritically applied to the sector, contributed to the undoing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act and of much of the competition it helped facilitate.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2516/1/MPRA_paper_2516.pdf
Bourdeau de Fontenay, Alain and Liebenau, Jonathan and Savin, Brian (2005): A New View of Scale and Scope in the Telecommunications Industry: Implications for Competition and Innovation. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 60 (December 2005): pp. 85-103.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2517
2019-09-26T21:29:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2517/
Regulatory Failure: Time for a New Policy Paradigm
Alleman, James
Rappoport, Paul
L90 - General
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
Regulation is presumed to be designed to avoid (potential) market failures,usually because of firms' market power, the consequence of which leads to a decrease in economic welfare. However, the cost of regulation may outweigh any effects policy makers have on the firm due to administrative costs, regulatory capture and other effects that have been addressed by others. More importantly, policy makers have been using the wrong models to guide their decisions, with a major impact on the investment incentives of firms, a misallocation of resources and a lowering of social welfare. As policy makers misread economic theory, they produce results worse than those they are attempting to correct. Thus, these distorting effects are equally as bad, or worse than, the market failure regulators hoped to ameliorate. However, this need not be the case. By concentration on
dynamic models, rather than the simple static models on which policy makers have focused, it is possible to improve economics welfare and obtain results that at least are better than the costs associated with current regulatory practices. Ofcom appears to be moving in this direction. Will other policy makers learn from Ofcom? This paper shows some of the failures of the current model and sets forth some of the necessary steps to make improvements. However, it is unclear whether the institutional structures will allow for such a departure from the current paradigm.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2517/1/MPRA_paper_2517.pdf
Alleman, James and Rappoport, Paul (2005): Regulatory Failure: Time for a New Policy Paradigm. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 60 (December 2005): pp. 105-120.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2518
2019-09-27T01:57:35Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2518/
A Regulatory Framework for New and Emerging Markets
Baake, Pio
Kamecke, Ulrich
Wey, Christian
L90 - General
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
The future of the information society crucially depends on investments in upgrading existing infrastructures and building new networks. Traditional cost-based regulation, which focuses on issues of static efficiency and service-based competition necessarily has negative effects on innovation incentives and the emergence of infrastructure-based competition in the highly dynamic telecommunications industry. This paper presents a regulatory framework for new infrastructures, which makes ex ante regulation contingent to the tendency towards effective competitive structures. Unlike the standard Significant Market Power-test (SMP), this approach takes a longer term perspective and therefore secures operators' investment incentives. The proposal has several desirable incentive effects. Firstly, it counters incentives to free-ride on investments by potential competitors, and secondly, it makes preemptive and other predatory practices by the investing firm less attractive. As a result, our proposal of contingent regulation in emerging markets promotes infrastructure-based competition in telecommunications.
2005-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2518/1/MPRA_paper_2518.pdf
Baake, Pio and Kamecke, Ulrich and Wey, Christian (2005): A Regulatory Framework for New and Emerging Markets. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 60 (December 2005): pp. 123-146.
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COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE AND CULTURE: CHALLENGES FOR RISK REGULATION
Marquez, Pablo
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
K13 - Tort Law and Product Liability ; Forensic Economics
K29 - Other
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
The author studies three aspects of human live valuation and its relation with cost benefit analysis and regulation. More precisely the author addresses the problem of valuation of a statistical human life and its relation with cost benefit analysis in mortality risk reduction. First, studies the debate about Valuation of a Statistical Human Life (VSL) and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) in mortality risks regulation; second, deals with two challenges to CBA and VSL, these are (a) the problem of discount rates and the problem of (dis)counting of future human lives, and (b), tests if culture (represented as a set of values) has an incidence in risk preferences and therefore, in willingness to pay for life in different countries.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2632/1/MPRA_paper_2632.pdf
Marquez, Pablo (2006): COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, VALUE OF A STATISTICAL LIFE AND CULTURE: CHALLENGES FOR RISK REGULATION.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3248
2019-09-27T09:57:25Z
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Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates in the Shadow of the Regulator
Binmore, Ken
Harbord, David
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
L51 - Economics of Regulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
The conventional wisdom that mobile operators are able to act as monopolists in pricing call termination on their networks has recently been challenged by Hutchison 3G’s entry into European mobile markets. The European Commission’s electronic communications regime allows national regulatory authorities to regulate mobile termination rates if an operator is found to possess “significant market power”. This requires that the mobile operator not be constrained by the "countervailing buyer power" of incumbents. The claim that incumbent operators possess countervailing buyer power has been repeatedly dismissed because of their obligation to interconnect with other networks. This conclusion is erroneous. We analyse bargaining over fixed-to-mobile termination rates and demonstrate that the existence of an interconnectivity obligation is entirely consistent with new entrants such as Hutchison 3G having no market power at all in pricing call termination on their own networks.
2005-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Binmore, Ken and Harbord, David (2005): Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates in the Shadow of the Regulator. Published in: Journal of Competition Law and Economics , Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2005): pp. 449-472.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3249
2019-09-27T19:37:12Z
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UMTS broadband mobile technology is a reality – Confounding many expectations
Heng, Stefan
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L96 - Telecommunications
K20 - General
Contrary to the negative public perception, third-generation (3G) broadband mobile telecommunication, aka UMTS, has become reality. UMTS networks have been rolled out above all in Central Europe. The take-up of UMTS differs sharply from one country to the next, though. The large differences are due not only to market-related factors and differing marketing strategies, but also to political intervention that distorts the market. At present, content providers, handset makers and telcos are working feverishly to produce UMTS-based supplementary offerings. For the sluggish demand for mobile broadband services still harbours a big risk for the entire telecommunications sector.
2006-06-13
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3249/1/MPRA_paper_3249.pdf
Heng, Stefan (2006): UMTS broadband mobile technology is a reality – Confounding many expectations. Published in: E-conomics No. 57 (13 June 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3250
2019-09-26T11:02:13Z
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Media industry facing biggest upheaval since Gutenberg. Media consumers morphing into media makers
Heng, Stefan
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
O34 - Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L88 - Government Policy
H41 - Public Goods
The advance of innovative information and communication technologies has triggered a fundamental upheaval in the media industry. The technology is reforming the conventional media model. The media mix will become more varied; interactive and personalised offers are taking root and finding their ideal milieu on the web. Newspapers, radio stations and TV broadcasters will have to reposition themselves if they want to remain attractive in the media industry with the arrival of the Web 2.0. This will include seeking new distribution channels and considering e.g. pay-per-view programming and innovative forms of advertising.
2006-10-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3250/1/MPRA_paper_3250.pdf
Heng, Stefan (2006): Media industry facing biggest upheaval since Gutenberg. Media consumers morphing into media makers. Published in: E-conomics No. 59 (16 October 2006)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3272
2019-10-01T04:59:28Z
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Corporate Governance: a South-Eastern European perspective
Bobirca, Ana
Miclaus, Paul-Gabriel
G38 - Government Policy and Regulation
P31 - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
K22 - Business and Securities Law
G34 - Mergers ; Acquisitions ; Restructuring ; Corporate Governance
The purpose of the article is to illustrate the main characteristics of the corporate governance challenge facing the countries of South-Eastern Europe (SEE) and to subsequently determine and assess the extensiveness and effectiveness of corporate governance regulation in these countries.
Therefore, we start with an overview on the subject of the key problems of corporate governance in transition. We then address the issue of corporate governance measurement for SEE countries. To this end, we include a review of the methodological framework for determining both the extensiveness and the effectiveness of corporate governance legislation, as defined by the EBRD and a discussion on aspects related to corporate governance development, the quality of corporate governance codes and of the “law on the books”. We then focus on the actual analysis of legal institutions effectiveness and provide a measure of corporate governance in Romania and other SEE emerging markets. The paper concludes by emphasizing the relationship between legal change and the development of financial markets in the SEE region.
2007-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3272/1/MPRA_paper_3272.pdf
Bobirca, Ana and Miclaus, Paul-Gabriel (2007): Corporate Governance: a South-Eastern European perspective.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3388
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Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
K14 - Criminal Law
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
O54 - Latin America ; Caribbean
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
H56 - National Security and War
N46 - Latin America ; Caribbean
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
P10 - General
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
This paper continues my research program on violence and terrorism started 15 years ago. It presents in the first part through empirical exercises, the suitability of The Beveridge and Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents the simulation results of the hypothetical case of U.S., and Colombia experiencing, additional, and first three terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, 2001: for the U.S. additional attacks are simulated occurring in 1996, and 1998 with 24,950, and 61,516 casualties respectively; while for Colombia three attacks are artificially constructed independently in 1993 with 3,000 casualties, and 2001 with alternatives scenarios of 3,000 and 4,299 casualties. In the second part, while the model for terrorist attacks in U.S. soil is developed, and knowing that the geo-political context of the war in Iraq is different, Its objective, is to use the experience from Colombia to help policy, and decision makers understand the probable outcomes and implications of decisions taken today in regards to the war in Iraq. It uses the terrorist murder and attacks indicator from 1946 to 2001 for Colombia that assumes a 9/11 in Colombia killing 3,000 civilians, and that as its consequence the Colombian army started a strong confrontation against the enemy as the U.S did at that time. This indicator is used as dependent variable to re-estimate the model for cyclical terrorist murder for Colombia (Gómez-Sorzano 2006B, http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/539/01/MPRA_paper_539.pdf) using it, for sensitivity analysis scenarios including troop deployment decisions identical to those already taken by the U.S. during the war in Iraq. The last section concludes showing dynamically how at this point, moderate troop withdrawals and disarmament, will reduce both the intensity of the conflict and the estimated terrorist murder and attacks indicator for the U.S.
2006-12-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3388/1/MPRA_paper_3388.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2006): Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3438
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INCOMPLETE PROPERTY RIGHTS, REDISTRIBUTION, AND WELFARE
Amegashie, J. Atsu
D6 - Welfare Economics
K0 - General
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
In a world where the private protection of property is costly, government redistribution can lead to an increase in aggregate output. This result is not new. The novelty of this paper lies in specifying the conditions under which this efficiency-enhancing redistribution improves everyone’s welfare including the welfare of those whose labor finances the redistributive program (i.e., the rich) and how this is affected by the protection of property rights. The state may directly enhance economic rights through investments in security and the protection of property or it may indirectly do so through the redistribution of income. Under certain conditions, redistribution becomes desirable in situations where the state has exhausted its ability to enhance efficiency through the direct enforcement of property rights. In this case, redistribution can make all members of a society better off. Specifically, this occurs when the cost of predation is sufficiently low and the technology of private protection of property rights is sufficiently weak. The adverse effects of redistribution may be the consequence but not the cause of state failure. The real cause is a corrupt and inept state.
2006-02-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3438/1/MPRA_paper_3438.pdf
Amegashie, J. Atsu (2006): INCOMPLETE PROPERTY RIGHTS, REDISTRIBUTION, AND WELFARE. Forthcoming in: Social Choice and Welfare
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3514
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Spectrum Management and Broadcasting: Current Issues
Cave, Martin
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L96 - Telecommunications
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
Broadcasting policy has traditionally been supported by a 'command-and-control' system of assigning frequencies for terrestrial transmission, but this link is being eroded by the emergence of other technologies – cable, satellite, IPTV, mobile broadcasting - and by the emergence of multi-channel television, which is facilitated by digital terrestrial television. The switch off of analogue terrestrial transmission is being achieved through significant government intervention, but with diverse intentions relating to the use of the freed spectrum. It is argued, however, that the trend to liberalise spectrum policy is strong, and that this will promote the liberalisation of broadcasting.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3514/1/MPRA_paper_3514.pdf
Cave, Martin (2006): Spectrum Management and Broadcasting: Current Issues. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 62 (June 2006): pp. 19-34.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3515
2019-10-03T18:03:30Z
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DRMs, Innovation and Creation
Geffroy, Olivier
Geffroy, Anne-Gaëlle
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
D62 - Externalities
L96 - Telecommunications
K21 - Antitrust Law
DRMs are intellectual property institutions. They transpose the empirical principle of copyright, which implicitly recognizes that specific ownership rules should be attached to non scientific creation, into the digital era. The legal protection of DRMs, a private means of enforcing content excludability, participates in the "privatization" of copyright protection. This, in turn, means that a proprietary software — governed by intellectual property rights, reinforced by public law — becomes the key to the vertical relations shaped by exclusive copyright. DRMs consequently represent a major stake in the competition to capture network effects in the content distribution vertical chain
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3515/1/MPRA_paper_3515.pdf
Geffroy, Olivier and Geffroy, Anne-Gaëlle (2006): DRMs, Innovation and Creation. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 62 : pp. 34-47.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3516
2019-09-26T12:46:21Z
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The Role of Public Service Broadcasters in the Era of Convergence A Case Study of Televisió de Catalunya
PRADO, Emili
FERNÁNDEZ, David
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
The development of the convergence process has several implications in the reconfiguration of the media landscape. Public services broadcasters have new opportunities to fulfil their public service duties in a new competitive environment, which involves developing new applications on new platforms. Televisió de Catalunya, the public service broadcaster (PSB) of Catalonia, has developed a clear strategy in this new convergent environment, applying its traditional know-how to new interactive and digital media according to its public mission and getting positive feedback.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3516/1/MPRA_paper_3516.pdf
PRADO, Emili and FERNÁNDEZ, David (2006): The Role of Public Service Broadcasters in the Era of Convergence A Case Study of Televisió de Catalunya. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 62 : pp. 49-69.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3517
2019-10-02T09:43:50Z
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Traditional paradigms for new services? : The Commission Proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'
SCHEUER, Alexander
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
L51 - Economics of Regulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L96 - Telecommunications
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
For over 10 years the European Community has strived to develop suitable and proportionate answers to the phenomenon of convergence in its audiovisual regulatory policy. This article outlines the regulatory process at an EU level since the early 1980s as far as media, telecommunications and Information Society services are concerned, and analyses some of the most relevant policy papers specifically related to the adoption of the EC legal framework for the media in the digital age, before focusing on the preparatory phase leading up to the adoption of the Commission proposal for a Directive on "Audiovisual Media Services", issued in December 2005. In addition, the core of this proposal for a revised "Television without Frontiers" Directive, i.e. the extension of its scope to cover new media services provided in a non-linear manner and the introduction of a graduated regime of regulation with a lighter-touch approach in view of such services, is presented along with the main lines of debate among stakeholders.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3517/1/MPRA_paper_3517.pdf
SCHEUER, Alexander (2006): Traditional paradigms for new services? : The Commission Proposal for a 'Audiovisual Media Services Directive'. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 62 : pp. 71-91.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3550
2019-09-28T01:28:53Z
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Bundles and Range Strategies: The Case of Telecom Operators
Pernet, Sophie
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L88 - Government Policy
H41 - Public Goods
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L90 - General
L96 - Telecommunications
Against a background of competition and the generalisation of IP that characterises the field of electronic communications, the concept of the "bundle" has resulted in the emergence of "triple play", and even "quadruple play." This paper offers an overview of the growth of this phenomenon by introducing a distinction between the basic components of multiplay strategies and the diverse range of functions that can be linked to these strategies.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3550/1/MPRA_paper_3550.pdf
Pernet, Sophie (2006): Bundles and Range Strategies: The Case of Telecom Operators. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 63 (September 2006): pp. 19-31.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3551
2019-09-29T20:26:11Z
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Optimal Bundle of Multimedia Services in Emerging Mobile Markets
Lee, ChanGi
Lee, SeongCheol
Lee, DeockHee
Lee, HyeongJik
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
K21 - Antitrust Law
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
L96 - Telecommunications
Although various emerging technologies have been launched, they present limitations as far as offering full-scale ubiquitous services independently is concerned. In view of this fact, service providers are likely to provide bundled services among possible combinations of services. Indeed, making a timely decision regarding the value maximization of bundled service is directly related to service providers' future growth and success in the turbulent market environment. This paper aims to find the optimal service bundle among five emerging mobile services: T-DMB, S-DMB, WiBro, HSDPA, and Telematics. Considering what kinds of service features among the five emerging services offer differentiation to customers, we examine four attributes (TV, voice, portable wireless internet, and location-based services) using conjoint analysis to distinguish the service features. Our results show that TV service is the most favored among the attributes, followed by voice service in second position, and the internet and location-based service in third and fourth place respectively. Our result implies that mobile operators would be better off bundling HSDPA and S-DMB first, and then adding other services later, while fixed operators would be better off bundling WiBro and S-DMB first and other services later.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3551/1/MPRA_paper_3551.pdf
Lee, ChanGi and Lee, SeongCheol and Lee, DeockHee and Lee, HyeongJik (2006): Optimal Bundle of Multimedia Services in Emerging Mobile Markets. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 63 (September 2006): pp. 33-49.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3552
2019-10-07T20:22:03Z
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Triple Play Time
Hollander, Claude
Hollander, Abraham
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
O14 - Industrialization ; Manufacturing and Service Industries ; Choice of Technology
L88 - Government Policy
H41 - Public Goods
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
Abstract: Digital convergence thrusts telephony, television and the internet into the socalled 'triple play' offerings, creating new forms of rivalry between cable operators and
telephone companies. Markets participants feel compelled to enter new industries to survive, even though their core competencies are limited to their primary market. The outcome of triple play competition is likely to depend on the speed of the development of new technologies and the adaptation of the regulatory environment. In the short run, telephone companies will enjoy an advantage attributable to switching costs. However, this advantage will erode as younger subscribers switch to telephony on the internet.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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Hollander, Claude and Hollander, Abraham (2006): Triple Play Time. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 63 (September 2006): pp. 51-71.
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Service Bundling and the Role of Access Charge in the Broadband Internet Service Market
SHIM, Sunghee
OH, Jungsuk
D45 - Rationing ; Licensing
L86 - Information and Internet Services ; Computer Software
K21 - Antitrust Law
L82 - Entertainment ; Media
D42 - Monopoly
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
Using the classical Hotelling model, this paper analyzes the incentive for a CATV service provider to bundle broadband internet services when entering the broadband internet services market. In addition, the effect of such service bundling by an entrant on the market incumbent with ownership over existing bottleneck facilities is analyzed. Furthermore, an access charge that maximizes social welfare is explored and determined. Two cases are considered: in the first case, the market is fully covered; and in the second case, the market is not fully covered. With full market coverage, an entrant has an incentive for service bundling if there is sufficient service differentiation. The entrant's bundling strategy reduces the incumbent's profit. In this case, the total social welfare is independent of the level of the access charge and only has an effect of redistributing the net surplus between consumers and the incumbent. With partial market coverage, the entrant has an incentive for service bundling at a low access charge. The incumbent's profit increases if the access charge is higher than the cost of access provisioning. In this case, the total social welfare is dependent on the level of access charge and the welfare maximizing access charge is less than the unit cost of providing access.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3553/1/MPRA_paper_3553.pdf
SHIM, Sunghee and OH, Jungsuk (2006): Service Bundling and the Role of Access Charge in the Broadband Internet Service Market. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 63 (September 2006): pp. 73-91.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3560
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Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
Tavares, Samia
K39 - Other
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
H11 - Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is through the adoption of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. This paper uses the introduction of FOI laws as a natural experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different specifications. Moreover, I find that countries with plurality systems potentially experienced a decrease in corruption following the adoption of FOI legislation. Having a parliamentary system, however, had no impact on the effect of the reform.
2007-05-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3560/1/MPRA_paper_3560.pdf
Tavares, Samia (2007): Do Freedom of Information Laws Decrease Corruption?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3567
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3567/
Competition in European Telecom Markets
Bismut, Sophie
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L40 - General
L50 - General
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L33 - Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions ; Privatization ; Contracting Out
L94 - Electric Utilities
In recent years, the European telecommunications market has witnessed major developments, with rapid expansion in access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors have contributed to the transformation of the telecommunications industry, competition has played a key role in driving telecom players to invest in new technologies, to innovate and to offer new services. Increased competitive pressure is being felt across all market segments, even though significant differences remain across services and countries. Broadband roll-out has allowed operators to offer multiple-play services, thereby transforming traditional segment boundaries and competitive market structures.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3567/1/MPRA_paper_3567.pdf
Bismut, Sophie (2006): Competition in European Telecom Markets. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (December 2006): pp. 17-28.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3568
2019-10-01T04:50:53Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3568/
e-Communications: Investment and the Regulatory Framework
Jones, Siôn
Jones, Pau
L97 - Utilities: General
L50 - General
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
K29 - Other
L51 - Economics of Regulation
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L90 - General
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
The EU regulatory framework for e-communications was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in 2002, and became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market; and (3) to promote citizens' rights. The European Commission's DG Information Society commissioned London Economics to estimate the level of e-communications investment in the EU and to examine its main drivers as part of a contributio to the Commission's 2006 review of the e-communications framework. This paper outlines some of the findings of that study. The paper provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e-communciations sector by country and by sub-sector. It also presents the collected data, showing a decline in overall investment between 2001 and 2003 and a subsequent upturn in 2004. An econometric analysis of the drivers of investment over the period is undertaken, which suggests that better performing regulatory regimes, as measured by an OECD regulatory index, can contribute to higher levels of investment in the sector.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3568/1/MPRA_paper_3568.pdf
Jones, Siôn and Jones, Pau (2006): e-Communications: Investment and the Regulatory Framework. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (November 2006): pp. 29-39.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3569
2019-10-01T18:37:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3569/
The Road to More Flexibility in Spectrum Usage and Access: Are We There Yet?
Pogorel, Gérard
L51 - Economics of Regulation
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
In the spectrum sections of its "Proposed Changes" to the Review of the European Union Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services, the European Commission establishes a coherent, comprehensive and original set of forward-looking spectrum policy principles. By emphasising the role of trading and market flexibility, technology and service neutrality, it departs from traditional,administrative spectrum management principles. But by stressing the need for a clear justification of exclusive usage rights, it differentiates itself from market-fits all propositions. Three issues should be examined to understand what kind of evolutions could occur: the prevention of interferences, harmonisation and standardisation, and lastly the weight of institutions. Technical progress in wireless, culminating in extended dynamic access, will mostly complement market mechanisms in fostering the efficient use of spectrum, as long as institutional factors do not interfere (barriers to entry) or are removed.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3569/1/MPRA_paper_3569.pdf
Pogorel, Gérard (2006): The Road to More Flexibility in Spectrum Usage and Access: Are We There Yet? Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (December 2006): pp. 61-65.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3570
2019-10-01T05:47:00Z
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Markets Susceptible to ex ante Regulation : Methodology and Commission Recommendation
STUMPF, Ulrich
K29 - Other
L51 - Economics of Regulation
L50 - General
D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
K21 - Antitrust Law
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
The EU regulatory framework for electronic communications services distinguishes between markets that are susceptible to ex ante regulation and those that are subject to competition law alone. The paper lays out the methodology for identifying relevant markets that may be considered for ex ante regulation. It also provides a summary of the relevant markets that should be susceptible to ex ante regulation based on an analysis of conditions likely to prevail in a ‘representative" member state. The paper finally addresses the role of the European Commission, and in particular its Relevant Markets Recommendation, as a means of providing guidance to NRAs.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3570/1/MPRA_paper_3570.pdf
STUMPF, Ulrich (2006): Markets Susceptible to ex ante Regulation : Methodology and Commission Recommendation. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (December 2006): pp. 41-60.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3573
2019-09-29T04:29:48Z
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Innovation, Investment and Regulation: What are the Options for Regulation in the Near Future?
Flacher, David
Jennequin, Hugues
Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé
L50 - General
L52 - Industrial Policy ; Sectoral Planning Methods
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
L51 - Economics of Regulation
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the sector by delaying or cancelling investment projects, especially (but not only) concerning the construction of new infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1) continuing ex ante regulation, 2) substituting ex post regulation for ex ante regulation and 3) implementing an industrial policy for macro-strategic reasons. After describing a few major mutations in the sector that must be taken into account by regulators and presenting the major dilemmas that the latter are facing, we propose two possible solutions inspired by foreign policy. The first solution consists of offering investors regulation holidays, with regular reviews to deem whether these holidays should be prolonged or not. The second solution consists of implementing an industrial policy that could take the form of a contract negotiated between the regulator and operators. This would guarantee the absence of ex ante regulation if the conditions of the contract (in terms of regional planning, price, quality of service, types of investment…) are met.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3573/1/MPRA_paper_3573.pdf
Flacher, David and Jennequin, Hugues and Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé (2006): Innovation, Investment and Regulation: What are the Options for Regulation in the Near Future? Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (December 2006): pp. 105-123.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3574
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The Triangular Relationship between the Commission, NRAs and National Courts Revisited
Larouche, Pierre
Larouche, Maartje
K29 - Other
K40 - General
K41 - Litigation Process
K21 - Antitrust Law
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L96 - Telecommunications
In this article, the authors review the relationship between the Commission, the national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and national courts in light of the Commission's proposals for reform as laid out in the 2006 Review. They focus upon the Article 7 and Article 4 procedures of Directive 2002/21. They conclude that the Commission proposals leave key questions and their implications outside of discussion and fail to address core issues such as the standard of assessment under Article 7, the accountability for decisions taken upstream of the NRA, and the scope and depth of judicial review.
2006-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3574/1/MPRA_paper_3574.pdf
Larouche, Pierre and Larouche, Maartje (2006): The Triangular Relationship between the Commission, NRAs and National Courts Revisited. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 64 (December 2006): pp. 125-145.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3622
2019-09-26T15:02:50Z
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Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates in the Shadow of the Regulator
Binmore, Ken
Harbord, David
L51 - Economics of Regulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
The conventional wisdom that mobile operators are able to act as monopolists in pricing call termination on their networks has recently been challenged by Hutchison 3G’s entry into European mobile markets. The European Commission’s electronic communications regime allows national regulatory authorities to regulate mobile termination rates if an operator is found to possess “significant market power”. This requires that the mobile operator not be constrained by the "countervailing buyer power" of incumbents. The claim that incumbent operators possess countervailing buyer power has been repeatedly dismissed because of their obligation to interconnect with other networks. This conclusion is erroneous. We analyse bargaining over fixed-to-mobile termination rates and demonstrate that the existence of an interconnectivity obligation is entirely consistent with new entrants such as Hutchison 3G having no market power at all in pricing call termination on their own networks.
2005-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3622/1/MPRA_paper_3622.pdf
Binmore, Ken and Harbord, David (2005): Bargaining Over Fixed-to-Mobile Termination Rates in the Shadow of the Regulator. Published in: Journal of Competition Law and Economics , Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2005): pp. 449-472.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3642
2019-10-06T04:33:01Z
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Extensive Capture: the rise of international industrial regulation
Marquez, Carlos
L51 - Economics of Regulation
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L59 - Other
This research project tries to show that a unified discourse and a single global policy for liberalization and competition cuts across the economic and legal theory of transnational regulations of industry. The tension mediated by the concepts of harmonization, meaning that one regulation/standard is better that multiple regulations/standards, and the theory of international liberalization, meaning deregulation is better that regulation, brings many doubts about the phenomenon of international industrial regulation. The core of this project is to restate the problem of regulatory capture at a transnational level and show how it is possible, and profitable, for large corporations to capture transnational regulators with multilateral regulation or deregulation processes.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3642/1/MPRA_paper_3642.pdf
Marquez, Carlos (2007): Extensive Capture: the rise of international industrial regulation.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3707
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La decisione della Commissione Newscorp/Telepiù (COMP/M. 2876). Flessibilità nell’applicazione del concetto di dominance nella creazione di un quasi-monopolio, in considerazione degli interessi del consumatore finale e degli impegni assunti dall’acquirente
Congedo, Pierluigi
K21 - Antitrust Law
The article tackles the key-points of the European Commission decision clearing a complex merger in which a situation of ex-post near-monopoly was created.
The article mainly deals with the counter-factual analysis where the merger would not have been cleared, in particular considering the financial situation of the acquired company (Telepiù). It also briefly mentions the 2002/2003 debate preceding the adoption of the new EC merger regulation 139/04: the scope of the EC dominance-oriented test, on one hand, and the UK Substantial Lessening of Competition test, on the other.
2003-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3707/1/MPRA_paper_3707.pdf
Congedo, Pierluigi (2003): La decisione della Commissione Newscorp/Telepiù (COMP/M. 2876). Flessibilità nell’applicazione del concetto di dominance nella creazione di un quasi-monopolio, in considerazione degli interessi del consumatore finale e degli impegni assunti dall’acquirente. Published in: Europa da vicino, Maggioli Ed., Rimini , Vol. I, No. 2 (September 2003)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3764
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Privatization of health sector in ex socialist states
Strazisar, Borut
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
Privatization of health care system in ex socialist states is one of the most controversial political and legal questions. On one part there is a widening discrepancy between the costs of health care system and the capability of public finances to cover these costs. On the other part there is a widening discrepancy between the users’ expectations and the technical and personal capability of health care system. So many governments in ex socialist countries see the privatization of health care system as a magical stick which will resolve all the problems. With privatization governments want to achieve following goals:
- to improve the cost – benefit relation in health system;
- to enlarge the citizens’ responsibility to live healthy;
- to prevail the responsibility for the development of health system to private sector;
- to liberate themselves from the political responsibility for malfunctioning health care system.
Modern local governments are increasingly outsourcing to private firms for public service provision. Privatization is used as a solution where government programs are failing because private firms offer flexibility in program operation and management and are more adept at responding to changing circumstances than governmental entities. Governments also benefit from private partnerships by way of the resulting resources and personnel that become available for other uses.
In this submission I’ll try to discuss about the problems of health care system’s privatization in ex socialist countries and about the necessary regulatory steps to be used for successful and citizens’ friendly privatization.
2006-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3764/1/MPRA_paper_3764.pdf
Strazisar, Borut (2006): Privatization of health sector in ex socialist states.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3765
2019-10-05T18:25:41Z
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Public sector privatization - legal framework
Strazisar, Borut
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
With the accession of ex socialistic countries in EU the problem of public sector
privatization become the most popular and at the same times the most important
political question. Privatization becomes at the end of the 20th century the magical
word, which will resolve all the problems and incapability in public sector. We’re
talking about the sector which functioned in monopole framework with all the good
and the bad sides of such system. It was the sector which was used and sometimes
abused by the state to promote social, political and employment goals. On the other
side, distribution, quality and quantity of public goods and services was defined by
the state. So the consumers had no choice – their only choice was to use or not use
such product. In some countries (like in ex SFRY) also the infrastructure for public
services or goods was built with private money (direct or indirect investments) and
become the social or state ownership with no remuneration. Within public sector we
could speak also about the problem of authority privatization, but it’s a topic, which
requires separate analyzes. The intention of this contribution is to show the problems
of privatization on the supplier and on the demand side.
2006-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3765/1/MPRA_paper_3765.pdf
Strazisar, Borut (2006): Public sector privatization - legal framework.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3767
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Legislative powers and (X)NGO’s
Strazisar, Borut
K40 - General
(X)NGOs1 in nowadays world become more and more important player who not only fulfill
the humanitarian goals but also fulfill political goals of it members or even its sponsors. For (X)NGOs late task becomes easier because state uses them as auxiliary legislator. There are diverse reasons for such practice such as:
- modern states wants to promote their economy by omitting expensive and unclear
legislation (following OECD proposals for legislative reforms);
- governing political parties want to pass the political responsibility for tricky political decisions to another body (i.e. collective doubt);
- (X)NGOs have more accurate information on certain legislative questions than
parliament or government.
This article deals with two major problems. In first part it analyzes pro et contra’s for
delegation of legislative powers to NGOs and possible risks of such processes. Second part
takes in consideration different kind of legislative solutions how to use (X)NGOs in
legislative procedure.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3767/1/MPRA_paper_3767.pdf
Strazisar, Borut (2007): Legislative powers and (X)NGO’s.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3776
2019-10-01T04:45:40Z
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Decomposing violence: terrorist murder and attacks in New York State from 1933 to 2005
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
H56 - National Security and War
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
K14 - Criminal Law
H76 - State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
C80 - General
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder in the state of New York. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks in the state. The estimated cyclical terrorist murder component warns that terrorist attacks in the state of New York from 1962 to 2005, historically occur in the estimated turning point dates, of whether a declining, or ascending cycle, and so, it must be used in future research to construct a model for explaining the causal reasons for its movement across time, and for forecasting terrorist murder and attacks for New York.
2006-12-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/1/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2006): Decomposing violence: terrorist murder and attacks in New York State from 1933 to 2005.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:3870
2019-09-26T17:46:04Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513533
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3431
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3870/
Economic Efficiency of Public Interest Litigations (PIL): Lessons from India
Raja, A.V
Rathinam, Francis
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
K41 - Litigation Process
Past interest in the phenomena of Public interest litigation has concentrated on a legal justification of PIL and on arguments based on “access to Justice” for the poor. There seems to be scant literature that looks at PIL from a Law and Economics perspective. This paper sets up a framework to analyze the economic efficiency of public Interest Litigation in the Indian context. We argue that PIL can be justified as an economically efficient choice of redressel if certain conditions are fulfilled. These are, insufficient incentive for private litigation, regulatory failures and the inability of class action to counter harm due to high transaction costs. Thus PIL is seen as an efficient method of bundling interests wherever there are failures of the kind mentioned. We delineate the kinds of economic activity that generate these specific conditions and analyze if PIL has been successful in such cases. We show that PILs filed in India do seem to stem from considerations of Economic efficiency, but there are instances where PIL may be used strategically to pull off private ends and open up a floodgate of litigation. We present only a basic direction of the research since this is still a part of on going research.
2005-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3870/1/MPRA_paper_3870.pdf
Raja, A.V and Rathinam, Francis (2005): Economic Efficiency of Public Interest Litigations (PIL): Lessons from India.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4002
2019-10-03T04:59:12Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3131
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4002/
The pirate from Koenigsberg: why closed source software is not worth of copyright protection
Pievatolo, Maria Chiara
K11 - Property Law
According to Kant, property applies only to touchable things, among which he includes the works of art. For the very principle of private property, a legitimate purchaser has the right to replicate and to share them without restrictions.
Kant recognizes copyright only on written texts, by conceiving them as speeches that exclusively authorized spokespersons - the publishers - may convey to the public in the name of their authors. The rights of the authorized publishers, however, are justified only if they help the public to get the texts.
In a Kantian environment, open source software would be worth of copyright protection, because it can be conceived as a speech meant to human beings. On the contrary, Kant would treat closed source programs as works of art, without according them copyright protection, because, as none is allowed to read and to understand them, they cannot be conceived as a speeches meant to the public. Closed source programs are like sealed books that no one is allowed to read: why do we keep on taking for granted that they are worth of copyright protection?
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4002/1/MPRA_paper_4002.pdf
Pievatolo, Maria Chiara (2007): The pirate from Koenigsberg: why closed source software is not worth of copyright protection.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4135
2019-09-27T21:29:28Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4931:493138
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3936
7375626A656374733D4B:4B33:4B3332
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4135/
Dialing While Fishtailing: How Mobile Phones, Hands-Free Laws, and Driving Conditions Interact to Affect Traffic Fatalities
Kolko, Jed
I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
L96 - Telecommunications
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Most rich countries in the world and four US states require drivers talking on mobile phones to use hands-free devices. However, previous research has failed to arrive at a consensus on the effect of mobile phones on traffic accidents yet has concluded that the effect of hands-free and hand-held phones on accidents is similar.
This paper uses state-level data from 1997-2005 on mobile phone ownership, traffic fatalities, and hands-free laws and finds that (1) mobile phones contribute to traffic fatalities and (2) hands-free laws appear to reduce fatalities. Specifically, mobile phone ownership results in a large and statistically significant increase in traffic fatalities in bad weather or wet road conditions, with no effect in good weather or dry road conditions. Laws requiring drivers to use hands-free technologies while talking reduce traffic fatalities in adverse conditions, and the effect grows stronger and becomes statistically significant the longer the law is in effect, although these longer-term effects are based solely on New York, which in 2001 became the first state to have a hands-free law.
The analysis relies on microdata from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System to estimate effects for traffic fatalities in different conditions and to isolate fatalities unlikely to be affected by confounding changes in alcohol policies or graduated licensing laws.
2007-07-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4135/1/MPRA_paper_4135.pdf
Kolko, Jed (2007): Dialing While Fishtailing: How Mobile Phones, Hands-Free Laws, and Driving Conditions Interact to Affect Traffic Fatalities.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4182
2019-09-28T07:16:29Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3130
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3139
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3137
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3130
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3139
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4182/
Floss (Free/Libre Open Source Software): A Theme For Cultural Differences Study
Ramanujam, Padmanabha
K10 - General
L19 - Other
L17 - Open Source Products and Markets
L10 - General
K19 - Other
Geert Hofstede presented statistical evidence purporting to identify intercultural co-operation and its importance for survival in his scholarship work “cultures and organizations”. This article presents a study, which describes how differences in national culture can affect or influence the participation of programmers who produce open source software (OSS). The four important dimensions of national cultures considered by Hofstede model namely Power Distance Index (PDI), Individualism Index (IAV), Masculinity-Feminity Index (MAS) and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) are selected and correlated with the Geographical Distribution of Developers Index (GDD) for testing the above hypothesis. It is suggested that there exists some correlation between the cultural factors and the demographics of programmers who participate in the open source movement. Finally, the manner in which these cultural factors impinge on the incentives of the programmers who are engaged in open source movement by writing codes for free are also discussed.
2007-07-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4182/1/MPRA_paper_4182.pdf
Ramanujam, Padmanabha (2007): Floss (Free/Libre Open Source Software): A Theme For Cultural Differences Study.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4200
2019-09-26T13:42:19Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3537
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3531
7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3134
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443734
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/
Terrorist murder, cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks in New York City during the last two centuries
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
H56 - National Security and War
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
K14 - Criminal Law
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of murder of New York City – NYC (1797-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks in the city. The estimated cyclical terrorist murder component warns that terrorist attacks in New York City from 1826 to 2005, historically occur in the estimated turning point dates, of whether a declining, or ascending cycle, and so, it must be used in future research to construct a model for explaining the causal reasons for its movement across time, and for forecasting terrorist murder and attacks for New York City.
2007-01-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/1/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf
Gomez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Terrorist murder, cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks in New York City during the last two centuries.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4253
2019-09-26T12:48:59Z
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7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3130
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3139
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3130
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3139
7375626A656374733D4C:4C31:4C3137
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4253/
Floss (Free/Libre Open Source Software): A Theme For Cultural Differences Study
Ramanujam, Padmanabha
L10 - General
K19 - Other
K10 - General
L19 - Other
L17 - Open Source Products and Markets
Geert Hofstede presented statistical evidence purporting to identify intercultural co-operation and its importance for survival in his scholarship work “cultures and organizations”. This article presents a study, which describes how differences in national culture can affect or influence the participation of programmers who produce open source software (OSS). The four important dimensions of national cultures considered by Hofstede model namely Power Distance Index (PDI), Individualism Index (IAV), Masculinity-Feminity Index (MAS) and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (UAI) are selected and correlated with the Geographical Distribution of Developers Index (GDD) for testing the above hypothesis. It is suggested that there exists some correlation between the cultural factors and the demographics of programmers who participate in the open source movement. Finally, the manner in which these cultural factors impinge on the incentives of the programmers who are engaged in open source movement by writing codes for free are also discussed.
2007-07-16
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4253/1/MPRA_paper_4253.pdf
Ramanujam, Padmanabha (2007): Floss (Free/Libre Open Source Software): A Theme For Cultural Differences Study.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4342
2019-10-04T06:59:53Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3134
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7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433239
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Massachusetts
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
N40 - General, International, or Comparative
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
H56 - National Security and War
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
C20 - General
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
C29 - Other
Abstract: I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Massachusetts. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder warns that terrorist attacks in the U.S. from 1940 to 2005, have affected Massachusetts creating estimated turning point dates clearly marked by the most tragic terrorist attacks to the nation: the shut down in power in NYC in 1965, the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, and 9/11 2001. The index for Massachusetts foretold with amazing precision those attacks, and must be used as a proxy for attacks for the Whole U.S along with indexes already constructed for the nation (http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf) and, New York City (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf). The indexes must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism on the U.S. economy.
2007-01-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/1/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Massachusetts.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4360
2019-09-27T22:35:01Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4437:443734
7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3134
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3531
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/
Cycles of violence and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arizona
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
H56 - National Security and War
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Arizona (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder warns that terrorist attacks in the U.S. soil, and foreign wars fought by the country from 1941 to 2005, have affected Arizona creating estimated turning point dates clearly marked by the most tragic terrorist attacks to the nation: the shut down in power in NYC in 1965, the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, and 9/11 2001. Other indexes already constructed include the attacks indexes for the U.S (http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf), New York City (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf), and Massachusetts (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf). These indexes must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks, and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-01-22
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/1/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arizona.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4420
2019-09-28T15:22:44Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
7375626A656374733D4B:4B30
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4420/
Interlocking directorates as a thrust substitute: The case of the Italian non-life insurance industry
Carbonai, Davide
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
K21 - Antitrust Law
K0 - General
This paper investigates the market structure of the insurance business by
analyzing the (interlock) linkages among companies created by their directors. We
focus on the non-life business since this is a sector relatively closed with respect to
the competition with other financial activities; an absence of industry competition
cannot thus be compensated by other agents. We apply the graph theory to describe
the network and the principal component analysis to summarize information and
verify the correlation between direct interlocking and companies’ market shares.
2006-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4420/1/MPRA_paper_4420.pdf
Carbonai, Davide and Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni (2006): Interlocking directorates as a thrust substitute: The case of the Italian non-life insurance industry.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4498
2019-09-26T12:10:23Z
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7375626A656374733D46:4631:463133
7375626A656374733D4B:4B33:4B3333
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4498/
Negotiating the review of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding
Zimmermann, Thomas A.
K41 - Litigation Process
F02 - International Economic Order and Integration
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
K33 - International Law
ABSTRACT
On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place (‘DSU review’), without however yielding any result so far. This study proposes to analyse the DSU review negotiations and the proposals submitted so far.
In a first step, the foundations for the discussion are laid with a brief account of the economic, legal and political aspects of the dispute settlement mechanism, its evolution and its working in practice.
In a second step, the study offers an overview and analysis of the negotiating process in its broader context. Additionally, negotiating proposals on stage-specific and horizontal issues of the dispute settlement mechanism are presented and analysed in depth with regard to their background, their contents and their potential implications.
In a third step, the difficulties faced by negotiators in completing the DSU review are explored. Policy recommendations for further negotiations are made and the chances of a future agreement are evaluated.
Finally, the study is also intended to offer a one-stop point of departure for other researchers who wish to explore further specific aspects of the DSU review. To this end, references available on the DSU review exercise have been comprehensively documented.
JEL Classification: F02, F13, K33, K41
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4498/1/MPRA_paper_4498.pdf
Zimmermann, Thomas A. (2006): Negotiating the review of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding. Published in:
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4547
2019-10-02T15:18:49Z
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7375626A656374733D44:4437:443734
7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/
Cycles of violence, riots, and terrorist attacks index for the State of California
Gómez-sorzano, Gustavo
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H56 - National Security and War
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of California. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order as riots, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder, or attacks index found is optimal, and warns that terrorist attacks against the U.S., and riots in California have created estimated turning point dates marked by those tragic events. The index peaked to point out the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, and 9/11 2001, and for California it amazingly well captured the riots of 1965 and 1992. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks through the construction of Attacks indexes across the U.S. Other indexes constructed include the Index for the U.S. http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf, New York State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/01/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf, New York City http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf Arizona State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/01/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf Massachusetts State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf. These indexes must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks, and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-01-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/1/MPRA_paper_4547.pdf
Gómez-sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, riots, and terrorist attacks index for the State of California.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4578
2019-09-26T09:29:29Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3431
7375626A656374733D4C:4C34:4C3431
7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3936
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3930
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4578/
What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
O'Reilly, Tim
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
K41 - Litigation Process
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K21 - Antitrust Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L90 - General
This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes. Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4578/1/MPRA_paper_4578.pdf
O'Reilly, Tim (2007): What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 17-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4579
2019-09-27T21:06:08Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3936
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3930
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4579/
User Generated Content: Web 2.0 Taking the Video Sector by Storm
Mabillot, David
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
K41 - Litigation Process
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K21 - Antitrust Law
L96 - Telecommunications
L90 - General
This article examines the communities involved in the distribution and sharing of videos on the internet. Firstly, we study the practices connected with user generated content and describe the appearance of new players (YouTube, Dailymotion, Google Video, Zudeo, etc.) in the audiovisual landscape. We then discuss regulation of the new community model of digital content distribution before moving on to underline the need for the film and audiovisual industries to socially construct new cultural and commercial experiences with film fans.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4579/1/MPRA_paper_4579.pdf
Mabillot, David (2007): User Generated Content: Web 2.0 Taking the Video Sector by Storm. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 39-49.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4580
2019-09-26T09:10:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4580/
What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
O'Reilly, Tim
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K21 - Antitrust Law
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
L96 - Telecommunications
L90 - General
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
K41 - Litigation Process
This paper was the first initiative to try to define Web2.0 and understand its implications for the next generation of software, looking at both design patterns and business modes. Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4580/1/MPRA_paper_4580.pdf
O'Reilly, Tim (2007): What Is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 17-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4581
2019-09-29T06:07:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4581/
The Strength of Weak Cooperation:an Attempt to Understand the Meaning of Web 2.0
Cardon, Dominique
Cardon, Christophe
D62 - Externalities
D43 - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
L96 - Telecommunications
K29 - Other
This paper examines some continuities and ruptures in the use of Web 2.0 such as blogs, social media, user-generated content services etc. vis-à-vis earlier web services. We hypothesize that one of the sociological characteristics of Web 2.0 services is that making personal production public creates a new articulation between individualism and solidarity, which reveals the strength of weak cooperation. Web 2.0 services allow individual contributors to experience cooperation ex post. The strength of the weak cooperation arises from the fact that it is not necessary for individuals to have an ex ante cooperative action plan or altruistic intention. They discover cooperative opportunities only by making public their individual production. The paper illustrates this phenomenon by analysing the uses of different services and by looking at the new process of innovation that appears through Barcamp and Coworking spaces.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4581/1/MPRA_paper_4581.pdf
Cardon, Dominique and Cardon, Christophe (2007): The Strength of Weak Cooperation:an Attempt to Understand the Meaning of Web 2.0. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 51-65.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4582
2019-09-27T11:10:47Z
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D34:4D3431
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D34:4D3439
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3936
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4582/
Folksonomy: the New Way to Serendipity
Auray, Nicolas
M41 - Accounting
K00 - General
M49 - Other
L96 - Telecommunications
Folksonomy expands the collaborative process by allowing contributors to index content. It rests on three powerful properties: the absence of a prior taxonomy, multi-indexation and the absence of thesaurus. It concerns a more exploratory search than an entry in a search engine. Its original relationship-based structure (the three-way relationship between users, content and tags) means that folksonomy allows various modalities of curious explorations: a cultural exploration and a social exploration. The paper has two goals. Firstly, it tries to draw a general picture of the various folksonomy websites. Secundly, since labelling lacks any standardisation, folksonomies are often under threat of invasion by noise. This paper consequently tries to explore the different possible ways of regulating the self-generated indexation process.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4582/1/MPRA_paper_4582.pdf
Auray, Nicolas (2007): Folksonomy: the New Way to Serendipity. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 67-88.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4583
2019-10-01T14:43:10Z
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7375626A656374733D4D:4D35:4D3530
7375626A656374733D43:4335:433531
7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3239
7375626A656374733D43:4335:433532
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F33:4F3333
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3233
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433233
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4583/
Web 2.0: Nothing Changes…but Everything is Different
Barbry, Eric
M50 - General
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
K21 - Antitrust Law
L96 - Telecommunications
K29 - Other
C52 - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
C10 - General
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
L32 - Public Enterprises ; Public-Private Enterprises
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
For some, Web 2.0 is a "simple" evolution of the current web; for others, Web 2.0 is a real revolution. Web 2.0 is, in fact, a "revolutionary evolution." Technically speaking, Web 2.0 is a "simple" evolution because it is not a technical "breakthrough," as it is essentially based on an aggregation of existing technologies. However, the impact of Web 2.0 is such that it can actually be described as an evolution that will shake our sociological, economic and legal bases. This paper addresses the legal aspects of Web 2.0 and tries to explain that while Web 2.0 is not a lawless domain, it is highly likely to create a legal tsunami.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4583/1/MPRA_paper_4583.pdf
Barbry, Eric (2007): Web 2.0: Nothing Changes…but Everything is Different. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 91-103.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4584
2019-10-21T07:12:15Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4834:483432
7375626A656374733D4C:4C34:4C3431
7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
7375626A656374733D43:4337:433738
7375626A656374733D4C:4C39:4C3936
7375626A656374733D4C:4C34:4C3433
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4584/
Product Development 2.0
Hinchcliffe, Dion
H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K21 - Antitrust Law
C78 - Bargaining Theory ; Matching Theory
L96 - Telecommunications
L43 - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
Web 2.0 principles will not only revolutionize the web experience, the design pattern and the business models of software companies. They can indeed be applied to a lot of industries for new approaches to product development. The web can be used to put users in control and co-create better and richer products in a reduced timeframe.
2007-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4584/1/MPRA_paper_4584.pdf
Hinchcliffe, Dion (2007): Product Development 2.0. Published in: International Journal of Digital Economics No. 65 (March 2007): pp. 105-111.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4604
2019-09-30T17:15:44Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3531
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7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4604/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Washington.
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H56 - National Security and War
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Washington. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder warns that terrorist attacks against the U.S. have affected Washington creating estimated turning point dates marked by the most tragic terrorist attacks to the nation: the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, and 9/11 2001. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Washington. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S. http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf, New York State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/01/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf,
New York City http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf, Arizona State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/01/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf, Massachusetts State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf., California http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/01/MPRA_paper_4547.pdf., Ohio, and Arkansas. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-01-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4604/1/MPRA_paper_4604.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Washington.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4605
2019-09-28T06:56:17Z
7374617475733D756E707562
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7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4605/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Ohio
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H56 - National Security and War
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Ohio. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder warns that terrorist attacks against the U.S. have affected Ohio creating estimated turning point dates marked by the most tragic terrorist attacks to the nation: the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, and 9/11 2001. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Ohio. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S. http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf, New York State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/01/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf,
New York City http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf, Arizona State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/01/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf, Massachusetts State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf., California http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/01/MPRA_paper_4547.pdf. Washington http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4604/01/MPRA_paper_4604.pdf., and Arkansas. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2006-02-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4605/1/MPRA_paper_4605.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2006): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Ohio.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4606
2019-09-29T04:50:36Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B31:4B3134
7375626A656374733D4F:4F35:4F3531
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7375626A656374733D4E:4E34:4E3432
7375626A656374733D43:4332:433232
7375626A656374733D4B:4B34:4B3432
7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4606/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arkansas
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
K14 - Criminal Law
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
H56 - National Security and War
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder in the State of Arkansas. (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part does not coincide with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder shows that terrorist attacks against the U.S. have not affected Arkansas, presenting this State as immune to the suffering of the nation, and to the occurrence of attacks. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Arkansas. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S. http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf, New York State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/01/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf,
New York City http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf, Arizona State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/01/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf, Massachusetts State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf., California http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/01/MPRA_paper_4547.pdf., Washington http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4604/01/MPRA_paper_4604.pdf. , and
Ohio http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4605/01/MPRA_paper_4605.pdf. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-01-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4606/1/MPRA_paper_4606.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Arkansas.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4731
2019-09-26T14:07:28Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4731/
Repercusiones de la definición de tamaño empresarial en los resultados empíricos sobre eficiencia y financiación
Alfonso, Galindo Lucas
M00 - General
K29 - Other
M40 - General
E19 - Other
M2 - Business Economics
C10 - General
A huge number of quantitative and qualitative criteria perform the research practice and legal issuing on firm size and firm-size-related measures. Inside each of those criteria, quantitative boundaries between two firm categories have also been diverse, even arbitrary. This approach to firm size concept finds out a convergence among variables —assets, market share, labour cost— with activity segment remarks (where both a traditional division and a original proposal have been used). It is demonstrated that previous founding on industry-size relations —as well as profitability or financial structure measurements— clearly depend on firm size and industry (explicative variables) definitions and also on depending variables definitions (mainly profitability).
2006-10-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4731/1/MPRA_paper_4731.pdf
Alfonso, Galindo Lucas (2006): Repercusiones de la definición de tamaño empresarial en los resultados empíricos sobre eficiencia y financiación. Published in: Observatorio Iberoamericano del Desarrollo Local y la Economía Social , Vol. 1, No. 1 (5 September 2007): pp. 308-361.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4734
2019-09-28T04:50:05Z
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7375626A656374733D4B:4B32:4B3231
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4734/
El estado actual de las telecomunicaciones en México: la regulación que no llega
Aguilar-Barceló, José G.
L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy
K21 - Antitrust Law
En este artículo se describe de manera sucinta cual ha sido la evolución en la competencia de los principales servicios de telecomunicaciones en México desde el inicio de su proceso de liberalización a la fecha, tomando como referencia algunos indicadores del sector (tarifas, cuotas de mercado, número de competidores, etc.). Sin dejar de resaltar los logros conseguidos, se argumenta que la falta de una legislación que considere elementos fundamentales para una economía en vías de desarrollo, como regulación asimétrica para el incumbente, mecanismo para el financiamiento de las obligaciones de servicio universal o la sustitución de servicios y tecnologías como medio para incrementar la teledensidad, puede alejar a México aun más de los niveles de competencia y penetración alcanzados por la mayoría de los países desarrollados.
2003-04-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4734/1/MPRA_paper_4734.pdf
Aguilar-Barceló, José G. (2003): El estado actual de las telecomunicaciones en México: la regulación que no llega. Published in: Revista de Información Comercial Española (ISSN: 0019-977X) No. Número 808 (July 2003): pp. 125-140.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4783
2019-09-27T06:25:29Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4835:483536
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4783/
Terrorist murder, cycles of violence, and attacks index for the City of Philadelphia during the last two centuries.
Gómez-sorzano, Gustavo
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
K14 - Criminal Law
H56 - National Security and War
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the reconstructed time series of murder of the City of Philadelphia (1826-2004). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincides with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, breakdowns in social order, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and recently with the periodic terrorist attacks in to the United States. The estimated cyclical terrorist murder component warns that terrorist attacks to the U.S, have affected Philadelphia City creating turning point dates marked by those attacks. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Philadelphia. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S. http://mpra.ub.uni-uenchen.de/1145/01/MPRA_paper_1145.pdf, New York State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/3776/01/MPRA_paper_3776.pdf, New York City http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4200/01/MPRA_paper_4200.pdf, Arizona State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4360/01/MPRA_paper_4360.pdf, Massachusetts State http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4342/01/MPRA_paper_4342.pdf., California http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4547/01/MPRA_paper_4547.pdf., Washington http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4604/01/MPRA_paper_4604.pdf., Ohio http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4605/01/MPRA_paper_4605.pdf, and Arkansas. http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4606/01/MPRA_paper_4606.pdf. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-01-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4783/1/MPRA_paper_4783.pdf
Gómez-sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Terrorist murder, cycles of violence, and attacks index for the City of Philadelphia during the last two centuries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4800
2019-09-28T04:01:07Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4800/
The DSU Review (1998-2004): Negotiations, Problems and Perspectives
Zimmermann, Thomas A.
K41 - Litigation Process
K33 - International Law
F02 - International Economic Order and Integration
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
ABSTRACT
On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (Dispute Settlement Understanding; DSU) entered into force. Since 1998, negotiations to review and reform the DSU have taken place (DSU review), however without yielding any result so far.
The DSU review exercise has only attracted limited academic interest to date. This lack of interest in Members’ proposals and negotiations is rather astonishing, particularly if judged in the light of the general explosion of literature on the World Trade Organization (WTO), including on its dispute settlement system. Whereas even single adjudicating decisions such as the rulings in the Shrimp/Turtle or the
Bananas cases have each become the subject of countless contributions, the efforts of the entire WTO community to make the DSU evolve further have long been neglected. Only recently, a certain academic interest in these negotiations and in the submitted proposals can be noticed.
The over-emphasis of the DSU literature on rulings and recommendations, and the parallel lack of interest in the political discussions on the DSU, is questionable from both an analytical and a practical perspective. From the analytical point of view, it creates a general perception in which the role of the adjudicating bodies tends to be chronically overstated and where the intergovernmental, memberdriven character of the WTO is largely overlooked. Practically, such a distorted assessment may lead to policy recommendations or actions which are out of tune with political realities and which may undermine the sustainability of the system.
The DSU review negotiations, albeit unsuccessful so far, have brought forth a variety of proposals in the last seven years. These submissions are supposed to contribute to improvements and clarifications of the mechanism. Not only is the DSU review of interest in its own right, but it also offers a reflection of the experience that WTO Members have
gathered in 10 years of dispute settlement practice. In doing so, the discussions are revealing with regard to the general degree of satisfaction of Members with the system. They can also serve as an indicator for problems or tensions in the mechanism and for changes in the position of certain Members in and towards the system. Finally, the DSU review discussions assist us in establishing some hypotheses on the future evolution of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism.
This chapter seeks to contribute to the DSU literature by retracing the negotiating process in its context and by analyzing the main reasons why the negotiations have failed so far. Part 1 analyzes the negotiations that have taken place between 1997 and 2004. In Part 2, the reasons for the failure to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion so far will be discussed, based on a brief presentation of major proposals. Part 3 presents some elements of a “DSU Review in practice”, ie practical steps that Members and adjudicating bodies have undertaken to adapt DSU practice to changing circumstances and requirements without modifying the text of the DSU. Part 5 concludes with the following. The last chapter offers some conclusions from the preceding analysis.
2006
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4800/1/MPRA_paper_4800.pdf
Zimmermann, Thomas A. (2006): The DSU Review (1998-2004): Negotiations, Problems and Perspectives. Published in: Kim van der Borght and Dencho Georgiev (eds.): Reform and Development of the WTO Dispute Settlement System; London: Cameron May, 2006 (2006): pp. 443-472.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4805/
Renégociation stratégique de la dette, risque comptable et risque juridique
Chopard, Bertrand
Langlais, Eric
K0 - General
G0 - General
G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages
G20 - General
K35 - Personal Bankruptcy Law
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
G29 - Other
This paper studies the influence of bankruptcy law (depending on whether the law is pro-lenders or pro-borrowers) on the borrowers propensity to demand the renegotiation of their debt, when there exist an asymmetrical information between lenders and borrowers. In the tradition of Law & Economics, we proceed to a study of impact for the main parameters of the model that capture the design of bankruptcy law, showing their influence on the probability of strategic bankruptcy and on the social welfare.
2007-07-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4805/1/MPRA_paper_4805.pdf
Chopard, Bertrand and Langlais, Eric (2007): Renégociation stratégique de la dette, risque comptable et risque juridique.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4846/
Informational externalities and informational sharing in class action suits
Deffains, Bruno
Langlais, Eric
K41 - Litigation Process
K36 - Family and Personal Law
K13 - Tort Law and Product Liability ; Forensic Economics
K0 - General
K40 - General
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
When several plaintiffs file individually a lawsuit against the same
tortfeasor, the resolution of the various cases through repeated trials
produces positive informational externalities, which benefit to the later
plaintiffs (since there exist precedents, jurisprudence...). Thus, the first
filers may have an incentive to initiate a class action as far as it enables
the various plaintiffs to share their information. This feature has not been
stressed in the literature, and in contrast strategic uses of class actions
have been studied in more details (Che (1996), Marceau and Mongrain (2003)).
In this paper, we elaborate on a basic strategic model of litigation
settlement, focusing on the interactions between the characteristics of the
discovery process (as a general technology of production of evidences) in
mass tort litigation, those of the compensation rules set by Courts, and the
structure of litigation costs, in order to study when a class action fails
to occur, and when sequential trials are more likely.
We consider the case of a perfect discovery process. We provide sufficient
conditions under which a class action is formed. We show that when victims
have heterogeneous claims, the compensatory damages rule awarded by Courts
is of major importance for the formation of the class action, whatever the
degree of heterogeneity: all else equal, there always exists a degree of
\textit{damage averaging} under which the class action occurs. We also show
that when contingent fees are used to reward attorneys' services, plaintiffs
become neutral to the arrival of new information on their case.
2007-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4846/1/MPRA_paper_4846.pdf
Deffains, Bruno and Langlais, Eric (2007): Informational externalities and informational sharing in class action suits.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4904
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4904/
WTO Dispute Settlement: General Appreciation and the Role of India
Zimmermann, Thomas A.
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
K33 - International Law
K41 - Litigation Process
F02 - International Economic Order and Integration
ABSTRACT
On 1 January 1995, the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) entered into force. Until August 2006, the DSU has since been applied to 348 complaints – more cases than dispute settlement under the GATT 1947 had dealt with in nearly five decades. The system is perceived, both by practitioners and in academic literature, to work generally well. However, it has also revealed some flaws. Negotiations to review and reform the DSU have been taking place since 1997 ("DSU review"), however, without yielding any result so far. In the meantime, WTO Members and adjudicating bodies managed to develop the system further through evolving practice. While this approach may remedy some practical shortcomings of the DSU text, the more profound imbalance between relatively efficient judicial decision-making in the WTO (as incorporated in the DSU) and nearly blocked political decision-making evolves into a serious challenge to the sustainability of the system.
This article provides an overview of the first eleven years of DSU practice and the current DSU review negotiations. An outlook for future challenges to the system is also given. Moreover, specific chapters of the text focus on the role of India in WTO dispute settlement, her use of the system and her participation in the DSU review negotiations.
JEL Classification: F02, F13, K33, K41
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4904/1/MPRA_paper_4904.pdf
Zimmermann, Thomas A. (2007): WTO Dispute Settlement: General Appreciation and the Role of India. Published in: in: K. Padmaja (ed.): WTO and Dispute Resolution; Hyderabad (India): The ICFAI University Press, 2007 (2007): pp. 147-201.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:4996
2019-10-04T05:19:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4996/
Stock Market Developments and Capital Accumulation in India: Does Better Shareholder Protection Matter?
Sarkar, Prabirjit
K22 - Business and Securities Law
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
The paper analyses a new leximetric dataset for India relating to the protection of shareholders of the limited liability corporate sector and examines the impact of the changes in the shareholder protection law on economic development through stock market development. It finds no long-term relationship between corporate governance relating to shareholder protection and stock market developments and no relevance of stock market for economic development through capital accumulation.
2007-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/4996/1/MPRA_paper_4996.pdf
Sarkar, Prabirjit (2007): Stock Market Developments and Capital Accumulation in India: Does Better Shareholder Protection Matter?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5022
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5022/
Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem
Pollock, Rufus
L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law
With cumulative innovation and imperfect information about the value of innovations, intellectual property rights can result in hold-up and therefore it may be better not to have them. Extending the basic cumulative innovation model to include `sampling' by second-stage firms, we find that the lower the cost of sampling, or the larger the differential between high and low value second-stage innovations, the more likely it is that a regime without intellectual property rights will be preferable. Thus, technological change which reduces the cost of encountering and trialling new `ideas' implies a reduction in the socially optimal level of rights such as patent and copyright.
2006-01-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5022/1/MPRA_paper_5022.pdf
Pollock, Rufus (2006): Cumulative Innovation, Sampling and the Hold-Up Problem.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5025
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5025/
Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights
Pollock, Rufus
L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy
O3 - Innovation ; Research and Development ; Technological Change ; Intellectual Property Rights
K3 - Other Substantive Areas of Law
An extensive empirical literature indicates that returns from innovation are appropriated primarily via mechanisms other than formal intellectual property rights -- and that `imitation' is itself a costly activity. However most theory assumes the pure nonrivalry of `ideas' with its implication that, in the absence of intellectual property, innovation (and welfare) is zero. This paper introduces a formal model of innovation based on imperfect competition in which imitation is costly and an innovator has a first-mover advantage. Without intellectual property, a significant amount of innovation still occurs and welfare may actually be higher than with intellectual property.
2006-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5025/1/MPRA_paper_5025.pdf
Pollock, Rufus (2006): Innovation and Imitation with and without Intellectual Property Rights.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5051
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5051/
Trend of Legal Globalisation and Stock Market Development
Sarkar, Prabirjit
K22 - Business and Securities Law
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
The purpose of this paper is to analyze some leximetric data for a number of developed and less developed countries hitherto unavailable to examine (i) the changing state of shareholder protection and (ii) its connection with stock market development and capital accumulation. It finds a strong evidence of legal globalisation but no evidence of its favourable link with stock market development and capital formation.
2007-06-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5051/1/MPRA_paper_5051.pdf
Sarkar, Prabirjit (2007): Trend of Legal Globalisation and Stock Market Development. Forthcoming in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5052
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5052/
Stock Market Development and Capital Accumulation: Does Law Matter? A Case Study of India
Sarkar, Prabirjit
K22 - Business and Securities Law
O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance
O53 - Asia including Middle East
Stock market development has been an important part of financial liberalisation in the less developed countries (LDCs). In the pro-liberalisation circle, stock market is assigned to play an important role in the capitalist development of the LDCs. This is also true for the liberalisation regime of India. With the recognition of the importance of stock market in economic development there is a call for a better protection of the interests of the shareholders. In this perspective we shall examine whether share market developments have any long-term relationship with capital accumulation and whether legal changes promoting the interest of the shareholders exerted any long-term effect on Indian share market developments.
2007-02-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5052/1/MPRA_paper_5052.pdf
Sarkar, Prabirjit (2007): Stock Market Development and Capital Accumulation: Does Law Matter? A Case Study of India.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5093
2019-09-27T01:02:41Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5093/
Die neoliberale Agrargesetzgebung in México, 1992-2005
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
R14 - Land Use Patterns
K11 - Property Law
Under the pressure of NAFTA negotiations Mexican government changed the agrarian legislation at the beginning of the 1990. This reform meant turning away from the former leitmotiv of social justice brought up in the revolution towards the neoliberal paradigm of economic efficiency. The old system of subsedies and and institutional support was replaced by a market- and export orientation, the priority of community land was replaced by the primacy of private property rights in order to capitalize the Mexican agriculture. This paper analyses whether the goals of increasing productivity and changing the production structure where achieved.
There are three basic outcomes from the reforms: small scale farmers have los market shares and depend on non-agricultural incomes. Secondly, the trading of land is marginal, as export goods are produced on a small share of productive land and the agricultural corporations have many alternative to the purchase Hof land. The capitalization of agricultural enterprises has also been minimal. These results cause a regional concentration of agricultural corporations and lead to a further marginalization Hof small scale farmers.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5093/1/MPRA_paper_5093.pdf
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena (2007): Die neoliberale Agrargesetzgebung in México, 1992-2005. Published in: Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt , Vol. Volume, No. Número 105/106 (2007): pp. 122-142.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5094/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Michigan
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
H56 - National Security and War
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
C50 - General
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder of Michigan State (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part does not coincide with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder shows that terrorist attacks against the U.S. have not affected Michigan, presenting this State, along with Arkansas as immune to the suffering of the nation, and to the occurrence of attacks. The State appears as having a growing index of permanent murder. This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Michigan. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S., New York State, New York City, Arizona, Massachusetts, California, Washington, Ohio, Philadelphia City, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and Oklahoma. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-02-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5094/1/MPRA_paper_5094.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Michigan.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5095
2019-09-28T06:53:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5095/
Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Oklahoma
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
C88 - Other Computer Software
N42 - U.S. ; Canada: 1913-
H56 - National Security and War
C65 - Miscellaneous Mathematical Tools
O51 - U.S. ; Canada
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
C39 - Other
K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
I apply the Beveridge-Nelson business cycle decomposition method to the time series of per capita murder of Florida State (1933-2005). Separating out “permanent” from “cyclical” murder, I hypothesize that the cyclical part coincide with documented waves of organized crime, internal tensions, crime legislation, social, and political unrest, and with the periodic terrorist attacks to the U.S. The estimated cyclical component of murder shows that terrorist attacks against the U.S. have affected Oklahoma, creating estimated turning point dates marked by the most tragic terrorist attacks to the nation, and the State: the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, 9/11 2001, and the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing This paper belongs to the series of papers helping the U.S, and Homeland Security identify the closeness of terrorist attacks, and constructs the attacks index for Oklahoma. Other indices constructed include the Index for the U.S., New York State, New York City, Arizona, Massachusetts, California, Washington, Ohio, Philadelphia City, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and Michigan. These indices must be used as dependent variables in structural models for terrorist attacks and in models assessing the effects of terrorism over the U.S. economy.
2007-02-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5095/1/MPRA_paper_5095.pdf
Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo (2007): Cycles of violence, and terrorist attacks index for the State of Oklahoma.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5280
2019-09-28T02:28:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5280/
Financial integration within the European Union: Towards a single market for insurance
Beckmann, Rainer
Eppendorfer, Carsten
Neimke, Markus
K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
G22 - Insurance ; Insurance Companies ; Actuarial Studies
G34 - Mergers ; Acquisitions ; Restructuring ; Corporate Governance
Our study analyses the extent of integration of the EU market for life and non-life insurance. The main integration indicator used is the market share (premium based) of foreign companies in domestic markets. For the calculation of this indicator, three different kinds of foreign presence are taken into account: foreign presence through merger and acquisitions, through branches and agencies and direct cross-border sales without physical presence. Whereas the static view reveals a high degree of national fragmentation the dynamic view indicates advancing integration. The results also show that integration is even less advanced for life than for non-life insurance and that mergers and acquisitions are the dominant strategy to access a foreign market. Besides summarising the liberalisation history of the European insurance sector and discussing consumer benefits from further integration, the study contributes to a better understanding of obstacles to insurance market integration.
2002
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5280/1/MPRA_paper_5280.pdf
Beckmann, Rainer and Eppendorfer, Carsten and Neimke, Markus (2002): Financial integration within the European Union: Towards a single market for insurance. Published in: IEW Diskussionsbeiträge No. 40 (2002)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5332
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5332/
Self reporting reduces corruption in law enforcement
Motta, Alberto
Burlando, Alfredo
K00 - General
O10 - General
We consider a model of law enforcement where homogenous, risk neutral, and corruptible inspectors are responsible for monitoring citizens who may have committed criminal acts. A welfare maximizing, budget constrained government can implement appropriate wage policies to prevent collusion, but we find that governments characterized by high administrative costs in administrating fines, or by a low ability to spot and prosecute corruption, may prefer to let corruption happen. By allowing citizens to avoid all monitoring by reporting their own violations first, the government is able to increase welfare by hiring fewer inspector, and in some instances by shifting from a regime of corruption to a regime where there is none. Moreover, self reporting fully eliminates any deadweight losses that arise from the incentive schemes when inspectors are risk averse. In order for self-reporting to have these effects, it is necessary that the government maintains also an optimal incentive scheme for its inspectors.
2007-01-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5332/1/MPRA_paper_5332.pdf
Motta, Alberto and Burlando, Alfredo (2007): Self reporting reduces corruption in law enforcement.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5392
2019-09-28T01:43:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5392/
La legalidad en las políticas agrarias: México 1990–2005
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena
Q10 - General
A14 - Sociology of Economics
R10 - General
K00 - General
In support of public policy, the law anticipates Government projects so as to pave the way for them, or is adjusted along the way in order to adapt the institutional framework to the processes which in fact prevail. A typical case is that of Mexican Agrarian legislation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. We propose here that recent developments in Agrarian legislation reveal the limitations of the modernizing strategy of the 1990s, which resulted in a call for the rural population to enter into alternative economic activities, as agriculture ceases to be the way of life for numerous families. We conclude that the restructuring of agricultural production in Mexico has excluded the productive and social dimensions. The reformulation of agrarian legal discourse demonstrates the structural limitations of advancement in terms of the agribusiness model. Now the sector’s economic policy priorities of growth and yield shift towards the instruments of social policy related to territorial construction.
2007
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5392/1/MPRA_paper_5392.pdf
Acosta Reveles, Irma Lorena (2007): La legalidad en las políticas agrarias: México 1990–2005. Published in: Investigación Científica. Revista digital de la Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Nueva época. , Vol. Volume, No. Issue 2 (August 2007): pp. 1-25.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5460/
Regime Shift in Antitrust
Ghosal, Vivek
L40 - General
B00 - General
K00 - General
M20 - General
This paper empirically models the longer-run deep-seated shift in intellectual thinking that followed the Chicago School’s criticism of the older antitrust doctrine, the shorter-run driving forces related to switches of the political party in power, merger waves, changes in economic activity and the level of funding and quantifies their impact on enforcement by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice over the period 1958-2002. The key findings are: (1) a distinct regime-shift in antitrust enforcement during the 1970s and, post-regime-shift, there has been a marked compositional change with a quantitatively large increase (decrease) in criminal (civil) antitrust court cases initiated; (2) post-regime-shift, there appears to be a change in the role played by politics with Republicans initiating more (less) criminal (civil) court cases than Democrats and the estimated quantitative effects are large; (3) disaggregating the total number of court cases into the main categories under which they are initiated (price-fixing, mergers, monopolization and restraints-of-trade) shows that individual types of cases have widely differing responses to changes in the driving forces; and (4) in a horse-race between the regime-shift and political effect on one side and the remaining variables on the other, the former forces win hands-down in explaining broad shifts in enforcement. Modeling the longer-run shift and disaggregating the court cases emerge as crucial to gaining insights into the intertemporal shifts in enforcement. The paper elaborates on the causes for the shift in enforcement and on the effectiveness of antitrust.
2007-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5460/1/MPRA_paper_5460.pdf
Ghosal, Vivek (2007): Regime Shift in Antitrust.
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