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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Price Controls"”.
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Wage-Price Controls and the Labor Market's Response: The Nixon Controls of 1972
… to solve this dilemma. As a result wage-price controls have often been suggested as a plausible policy tool.
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Essays on the macroeconomic effects of monetary reforms, price controls and financial repression
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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Distributive considerations of a targeted price control
We review the literature on price controls and build a model that analyses shot-term dis- tortions on relative prices of product categories that are either directly or indirectly affected by price controls. According to the model, their imposition on low-end basic necessities might seem a …
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The Regulation and Development of the British Moneylending and Pawnbroking Markets, 1870-2016.
… that the payday loan market still lacked price competition and implemented price controls as a corrective measure. Less varied were the issues of concern and proposed solutions. This research identifies five main areas of regulatory concern: the high cost of loans, advertising, the use of …
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Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Fixprice-Flexprice Model
… theoretical work done in the area of wage and price controls suggests that controls are an effective means for reducing inflation. However, in these same studies too little attention has been paid to the shortages created by the controls. In part this oversight is due to the implicit assumption …
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The Political Economy of Argentine Development
… the rural conservatives by imposing rent and price controls. The new justices believed that retribution was legitimate given the fraud of the 1930s. None of these policies would have passed the Supreme Court had there been democratic governance in the 1930s. This work presents evidence …
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The Role of Inflation in Soviet History: Prices, Living Standards, and Political Change
… and the Bolsheviks were forced to stabilize prices. The Soviet system of price controls prevented inflation, but it also created persistent shortages of food and consumer goods. Mikhail Gorbachev tried to alleviate these problems, but his efforts resulted instead in Russia's second …
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Short run price elasticity of residential electricity demand within income levels and the implications for CO2 policy
This thesis investigates the relationship between price and use of electricity in residential homes in order to understand the impact of CO2 policy. A model is developed based on household, structural, regional, weather, and appliance variables. Data is collated from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, …
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An investigation into the effects of location and government regulation on the petrol sales of retail service stations in South Africa
… an ostensibly hostile world. Powerful government controls regulate all aspects of the oil industry, right through to final consumption. Retail service stations, the subject of this thesis, are no exception. They are affected by government propagated barriers to entry, price controls, restrictions …
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Analysis of Policy Reforms in the New Zealand Forest Manufacturing Sector
… the national elections in 1984. Deregulation of price controls, removal of the log export ban, and privatization of public assets were the main shocks to the forest sector. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impacts of these reforms on wood and paper industry cost, production, and cost …
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Economic development and the price level in Egypt, 1950-1962
This thesis on growth and the price level in Egypt, is a case study of a country which is planning to enter the take-off period at a time when a social and political revolution is taking place. The period of study (1950-62) covers a critical stage in the history of Egypt, since it may be considered …
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Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity Under Changing Information Asymmetry
… asymmetry largely from the lifting of price controls and entry barriers. We report that information asymmetry decreases following SOX and that there is a commensurate decrease in the investment-cash flow sensitivity, pre- to post SOX. The hypothesis that a greater change in investment …
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AN APPLICATION OF A MULTI-INPUT MULTI-OUTPUT MODEL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TO FOREIGN TRADE: THE CASE OF SRI LANKA
… the period 1958-1978. The study develops its own price and cross elasticities of demand and supply functions which are useful in evaluating economic policy.</p><p>Price and cross elasticities as well as the elasticity of substitution have been considered important factors in the analysis of an …
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Accountability in the retail and distribution sectors of the New Zealand electricity industry
… To date, this regime has rejected the use of price controls and associated methods in favour of market-based methods involving competition and transparent accountability. Corporate annual reports are therefore one of the prime ways in which organisations meet their accountability obligations. …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… 1998, government regulations - distribution and price controls - had created a market structure that closely resembled a cartel. The second case study is cigarettes. This study estimates the effect of advertising expenditure on seven leading firms' market shares, using monthly advertising and …
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Industrial concentration and competition in Indonesian manufacturing
… 1998, government regulations - distribution and price controls - had created a market structure that closely resembled a cartel. The second case study is cigarettes. This study estimates the effect of advertising expenditure on seven leading firms' market shares, using monthly advertising and …
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Price control and its effects on competition: a critical review of price control legislations and how they affect the competitiveness of the market
… in order to prevent any firm from dictating prices. It short, it strives to make the firms in the market to be price takers and not price setters as a way of reigning in on high prices in the market. However, in certain circumstances the competition laws become unable to supervise the market. …
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Fostering foreign direct investment in the `new' South Africa in the context of a changing world trading system: challenges, opportunities, policies
… earnings, performance requirements, capital and price controls, etc.), locational determinants (e.g. host comparative advantage, host market size, etc.), structural determinants (e.g. economic 'openness', investment infrastructure, etc.), and economic determinants (e.g. international trade links, …