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Ando, Amy Whritenour; Palmer, Karen L.. |
Retail competition in electricity markets is expected to lead to more efficient electricity supply, lower electricity prices, more innovation by suppliers and a greater variety of electric power service packages. However, only a handful of states have currently gone so far as to pass legislation and/or make regulatory decisions to establish retail wheeling. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that may influence the rate at which legislators and regulators move towards establishing retail competition. In general, we find that where one interest group dominates others in the struggle for influence over the decision makers, the net effect seems to push a state forward more quickly when retail wheeling is expected to yield large efficiency gains. |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Electricity restructuring; Deregulation; Political economy; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D78; L51; L94. |
Ano: 1998 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10643 |
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Nicolo, Antonio; Rodriguez Alvarez, Carmelo. |
We propose a model of Kidney-Exchange that incorporates the main European institutional features. We assume that patients do not consider all compatible kidneys homogeneous and patients are endowed with reservation values over the minimal quality of the kidney they may receive. Under feasibility constraints, patients' truthful revelation of reservation values is incompatible with constrained efficiency. In the light of this result, we introduce an alternative behavioral assumption on patients' incentives. Patients choose their revelation strategies as to “protect” themselves from bad outcomes and use a lexicographic refinement of maximin strategies. In this environment, if exchanges are pairwise, then priority rules or rules that maximize a fixed ordering... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Kidney; Matching; Protective Behavior; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; C78; D78. |
Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50671 |
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Theesfeld, Insa; Schleyer, Christian; Callois, Jean-Marc; Aznar, Olivier. |
Ex-ante impact assessment of agricultural, environmental, and rural policies has become an integral part of political decision making processes in the EU. While there is a large variety of agri-environmental modelling tools available to analyse likely social, economic, and environmental impacts of these policies, scientifically well-founded ex-ante policy assessment tools capturing institutional dimensions are still missing. In this paper, we introduce a formalised procedure for modelling – ex-ante – institutional aspects for policy implementation: the ‘Procedure for Institutional Compatibility Assessment’ (PICA). It has recently been developed within the SEAMLESS project as a component of an integrative modelling framework for ex-ante assessment of policy... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Ex-ante Policy Assessment; Institutional Policy Assessment; Agricultural and Food Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; B49; D78; Q18. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6112 |
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Alberini, Anna; Austin, David H.. |
We analyze factors in states' decisions to switch their approaches to hazardous waste liability policy from negligence standards to policies based on strict liability. Many, but not all, states have switched in recent years. We explain differences in the timing of states' adoption of strict liability into their "mini-superfund" programs using data on states' industrial activities, environmental programs, wealth and education, and political orientation. We test implications of a theoretical model in which states adopt the liability regime (strict versus negligence-based liability) that they see as having greater net benefits. We test this model by estimating a profit equation of the presence or absence of strict liability in a state hazardous waste cleanup... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Strict liability; Toxic spills; Liability policy; Hazardous materials; Environmental Economics and Policy; D78; H73; I18. |
Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10680 |
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Lora, Eduardo; Olivera, Mauricio. |
The purpose of this paper is to test the main hypotheses of the recent theoretical literature on the political economy of reform for the case of the Latin American countries between 1985 and 1995. The paper first reviews the literature and extracts the main testable hypotheses. Then, a system of indices that measure the extent of reform in five policy areas is presented. These indices are used as the dependent variables in panel regressions where the main explanatory variables are indicators of crisis, political variables and indicators of channels of contagion. We find very strong support for the well-known hypothesis that crises make reform viable and also for the (less theoretically sound) hypotheses that reforms are more likely at the beginning of... |
Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Structural reforms; Political economy; Latin America; D78; D72; C52. |
Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43851 |
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Falkowski, Jan. |
The ‘LEADER community initiatives’ and the ‘LEADER approach’ have been commonly accepted as an innovative way for development of rural areas in the EU. It is widely assumed that promoting growth in rural areas can be achieved through partnerships between representatives of three classes of local actors: civil society, public administration and private/economic sector. While these partnerships certainly have the potential to improve coordination mechanisms that manage local resources, their existence is likely to have an impact on the distribution of political advantages and future economic rents of current incumbents. What follows, it is reasonable to assume that local political elites may either block or impede the adoption of this institutional... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Political accountability; Local government; Rural development; Leader; Community/Rural/Urban Development; D72; D78; H77; O18. |
Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/114365 |
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