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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Regulatory policy"”.
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Fracturing Illinois: Fields of Political Contention in Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Policy
… of the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act (HFRA). Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial method of oil and gas extraction which created an unusual amount of public interest and participation in policy construction. This dissertation provides an overview of the political …
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The role of courts in regulatory policy: The case of telecommunications regulation
Courts involve in regulatory policy by means of statutory judicial review, and a theory of statutory judicial review is needed to account for judicial behavior in this respect. The theory this essay presents structures statutory judicial review as a game in which players try to materialize their …
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Defining and Analyzing Negative Policy Transfer: National Orphan Drug Regulatory Policy in Canada and Australia
The existing policy transfer literature has largely ignored the study of negative transfer, resulting in various conceptualizations and a lack of tools for examining these cases. This study develops a novel analytical framework for explaining negative transfer, focusing on the three major pathways …
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Evaluating UK Crisis Interventions: Fiscal, Monetary, and Regulatory Policy Responses to the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
… suggest that greater collaboration and more policy-oriented methods for crisis resolution and financial supervision, based on rebuilding trust and enhancing the financial stability of the system, are needed at the policy and institutional levels.
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The growth of performance-based managerial pay : implications for corporate finance, regulatory policy, and corporate governance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1995.
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Essays on bank capital and balance sheet adjustment in the UK and US, and implications for regulatory policy
… a better understanding of how market and regulatory driven capital targets affect bank behaviour. Such considerations are important to assessing the effects of shocks to banks' capital ratios on their supply of financial intermediation services to the real economy, whether those shocks …
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Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABBRA) in New Jersey: a case study of the implementation of regulatory policy
… prominent through the ongoing development of regulatory policy in the field of education (Anderson, 2011; Fowler, 2009; Limber & Small, 2003; Peterson & West, 2003; Rudalevige, 2003; United States Department of Education, 2011; White House, 2011). This investigation focused on the gap between …
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The effects of regulatory policy on the cost of equity capital and the value of equity in the electric utility industry.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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Environmental technology and policy development in a regional system : transboundary water management and pollution prevention in southeastern Europe
… and coordination of environmental technology and regulatory policy in Southeastern Europe, the environmental capabilities and needs of the region are discussed, and a regional cooperation and coordination systems framework is developed. The thesis focuses on a case study of transboundary water …
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Inspector Discretion and Industry Compliance in the Street-Level Implementation of Building Codes
… Unique to this study is the examination of policy congruence between building departments and street-level inspectors as a predictor of industry compliance with regulatory policy. In addition, the various effects of building department enforcement philosophies, departmental capacity for …
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A critical analysis of the fiscal incentives available in the renewable energy - a comparison between South Africa, India, China and Brazil
… currently available to qualifying taxpayers, the regulatory policy setting out the renewable energy targets and how it will be achieved is an important consideration. It was found that if there were periodic updates to the regulatory policy and it was mandatory for electricity utility companies …
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My home your workplace: the impact of health and safety regulation on care homes for older adults
… paradox between these concepts and the goals of regulatory policy with its emphasis on safety, performance, and monitoring. Care homes exemplify this paradox where an imperative for ‘homely values’ contrasts with the application of safety regulation designed to protect people ‘at work’ from harm. …
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The Nexus of State Regulation and Economic Development in Transition Economies (An empirical assessment using Central Asian countries)
… simply an issue of the technical design of the regulatory framework and/or formal institutional arrangements. However, the current research argues that state regulation is a far more complex policy phenomenon, and actual regulatory environments could be considerably different from the formal de …
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The politics of financial sector reform
… a detailed case analysis of the evolution of regulatory policy in the financial sector in Canada between 1981 and 1991. The thesis adopts both normative and positive analyses of the issue to determine whether economic or political factors were more important in shaping policy outcomes in the …
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WebRTC based network performance measurements
… view of LAN performance that can influence regulatory policy of internet providers and consumer decisions.
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Essays on the Microfoundations of Asset Liquidity and Resale Premia
… exchange alter equilibrium valuations, monetary policy transmission, and the structure of risk premia in modern financial economies. Chapter 2 of the thesis examines asset pricing with collateral and resale premia. Asset prices respond ambiguously to monetary policy: easing sometimes lowers …
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Essays on the Microfoundations of Asset Liquidity and Resale Premia
… exchange alter equilibrium valuations, monetary policy transmission, and the structure of risk premia in modern financial economies. Chapter 2 of the thesis examines asset pricing with collateral and resale premia. Asset prices respond ambiguously to monetary policy: easing sometimes lowers …
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Adverse selection and government intervention in life and health insurance markets
… papers examine the effect of government tax and regulatory policy in markets for supplementary health insurance. The third paper presents new evidence of the importance of adverse selection in insurance markets. The first paper examines the empirical consequences of imposing binding minimum …
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Consumer Search and Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence From the United States Long-Distance Market
… in this thesis have specific implications for regulatory policy. In markets facing new competition (e.g., local telephone service, electricity service), competition is likely to emerge first and be more vigorous for higher volume consumers. Hence, deregulation should be stronger for services …
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The business case for continuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals
… This structure is the result of historical regulatory policy as well as the conservative nature of the industry. Recent clarification by US and European regulatory bodies has opened the possibility to new approaches to the manufacturing process. This combined with changes in the market for …
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