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| Brennan, Timothy J.. |
| Following recent telecommunications mergers, local (mostly municipal and county) governments and the federal government are fighting over who should determine whether cable television systems must make their facilities available to unaffiliated providers of high-speed ("broadband") Internet service. This intergovernmental dispute is only the latest in a series of such clashes regarding competition and communications policy. A brief review of the policy suggests that substantively, local open-access requirements are not yet warranted. However, the economics of federalism, primarily that the relevant markets are local, indicates that local governments should have the right to choose these policies, perhaps erroneously. Federal preemption could prevent... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Federalism; Internet; Regulation; Vertical integration; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; H1; L5; L1. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10823 |
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| Bayer, Patrick; Pozen, David E.. |
| This paper uses data on juvenile offenders released from correctional facilities in Florida to explore the effects of facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on recidivism outcomes and costs. The data provide detailed information on individual characteristics, criminal and correctional histories, judge-assigned restrictiveness levels, and home zipcodes allowing us to control for the non-random assignment of individuals to facilities far better than any previous study. Relative to all other management types, for-profit management leads to a statistically significant increase in recidivism, but, relative to nonprofit and state-operated facilities, for-profit facilities operate at a... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Juvenile Crime; Juvenile correctional facilities; Recidivism; Prison privatization; Provision of public goods; Nonprofit; For-profit; Public; Labor and Human Capital; H0; H1; H4; K0; K4. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/28484 |
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| Oates, Wallace E.; Portney, Paul R.. |
| This paper provides a review and assessment of the extensive literature on the political determination of environmental regulation. A promising theoretical literature has emerged relatively recently that provides models of the political interaction of government with various interest groups in the setting of environmental standards and the choice of regulatory instruments. A large empirical literature supports such models, finding evidence of the influence of interest groups but also evidence that net social benefits are often an important determinant of environmental policy choices. We then take up the issue of environmental federalism and the large and growing theoretical literature that addresses the competitive "race to the bottom." The paper concludes... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environmental regulation; Environmental management; Environmental policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q2; H1. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10849 |
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