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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Regulatory capture"”.
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The Financial Services Act : a case study in regulatory capture
… 1986. The Act put in place a revolutionary new regulatory framework for controlling the sale of investment products such as pensions and insurance. The stated objectives of the new regime were to protect the ordinary investor, `Aunt Agatha', from mis-selling and bad advice. However, there is …
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South Africa's energy conundrum: the potential limiting effects of departmentalism on policy decision-making
… Eskom, the dominant incumbent monopoly has captured energy policy decision-making. The theory on regulatory capture is an important theory to discuss in this case as it highlights how the policy making space is altered by an information asymmetry and how this impacts on role players and …
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World market governance
… development of the global market economy and regulatory capture is all too common. Concepts like de-globalization, self-regulation, and global government are floated in the debate. The alternatives are analysed and found to be improper, inadequate or plainly impossible. The proposed route is …
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Agentic AI systems in professional domains: A probabilistic framework for role suitability and legal accountability
… liability allocation, and resilience to regulatory capture. While limitations remain (such as reliance on voluntary compliance and lack of empirical validation), the framework provides a legally coherent foundation for enterprise adoption and policy development. This thesis proposes a …
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Wireless networks for the developing world
… reducing barriers to entry and the risk of regulatory capture. In order to assess this opportunity in the context of Africa, I have surveyed every country in the continent on their regulations and use of the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands. Responses, from differing country informants though mostly from …
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Capturing Appalachia: Visualizing coal, culture, and ecology
… with the region’s historic and contemporary capture (cultural, economic, and ecological) by resource extraction. These dialectical relationships are made clear in the visuality of Appalachia, with paradigms frequently challenged by the production of countervisual narratives in productions …
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Examining the market and regulatory dynamics behind the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project
… gives Virginia, a state criticized for a weak regulatory environment and environmental policy that has been slow to embrace renewable energy, an opportunity to take a leadership position in the development of this zero-carbon resource. One explanation for the CVOW project's emergence is the …
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Essays on Intellectual Property
… groups such as top innovators are able to capture their regulators, gaining favorable treatment in return for either monetary contributions to legislators' political committees or hoped-for future employment of regulators in the firms they regulate or in the firms of their legal …
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Post-privatisation problems in the Nigerian electricity sector : the roles of sector-specific regulation and antitrust law
… post-privatisation suffers from corruption, regulatory capture, weak institutions of governance, slow development of the renewable energy market and anticompetitive practices by private electricity companies. <br/><br/>The study assesses the role of SSR and an interventionist antitrust law in …
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Gender-based violence: strengthening the role and scope of prehospital emergency care by promoting theory, policy and clinical praxis
… practice is warranted. There is a risk of regulatory and organisational 'capture' mediated by masculine hegemony and resuscitation bias. Professionalization should enable a community of practice approach to violence prevention. Recommendations include the national implementation of …
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Harnessing the regulatory framework for compliance with environmental regulations in the hydrocarbon sector in Nigeria.
… questions the effectiveness of the current regulatory framework adopted for the hydrocarbon sector in Nigeria. The study reviews current debates on environmental regulations, regulatory role and compliance. This research examines the Nigerian oil and gas regulatory framework and the style of …
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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… dissertation examines the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatory agencies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and The Office of Thrift Supervision. Though …