Derivatives and Deregulation

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42 Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Road transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Telecommunications . . . . . . . ....

Regulation, Deregulation, and Happiness

Deregulation and Electricity Rates

This paper discusses the spread of electricity deregulation in OECD countries since the early 1990s. England, Wales and Norway were the pioneers, but almost all OECD countries have now introduced some degree of liberalisation, and several have free entry to generation while allowing all electricity consumers to choose where they buy their power. The paper discusses some of the issues raised by ...

Deregulation and Privatisation

ing from its dynamic effects on the economy, the potential benefits from deregulation of an inefficiently regulated sector may be illustrated in a simplified scheme first worked out by Harberger (1954) for the estimation of welfare losses from monopoly20. In this case, the Harberger measure of welfare loss corresponds to that part of the reduction in consumer surplus which is not appropriated b...

Re-deregulation, decollectivisation and individualisation

nds that on almost every conceivable measure, union power has declined. The paper addresses the practical impact of changes in the environment for unionism and fi nds that unions in 2004 are doing ‘more’ with ‘less’ than they were in the late 1980s. However, an examination of key aspects of unionism during the late 1990s and early 2000s, suggests that while the condition of Australian trade uni...