T he “net neutrality” debate, as it has emerged over the last five years, is a social, political and economic debate over the public information network known as the Internet and the duties of its private carriers, which include telephone and cable companies and other Internet service providers (ISPs). In the early 2000s, questions surrounding the rights of Internet carriers to block certain ne...

This paper attempts to explain how cost of intermediation can be reduced. One solution we postulate is subsidizing the cost of intermediation. The model uses ex-ante identical, spatially separated agents in an overlapping-generations framework. Agents receive relocation shock when they become old. We conclude that government cannot subsidize the cost of intermediation completely but it can redu...

This study looked for to lift information regarding laundries inserted in industries of animal products origin, to understand the activities developed in the section and to structure a Manual of Planning and Technical Information for laundries to industries of animal products origin, with the intention of subsidizing the planning, structuring and control of this work place, because norms or reg...

Public inputs play an important role in investment decisions made by multinational firms. Empirical research suggests that investment in public inputs such as infrastructure can have direct effects on productivity by lowering the average cost curve for private firms, as well as indirect effects by creating positive externalities associated with agglomeration. A general equilibrium model of a sm...

Within the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Kyrgyz Republic has been a pioneer in reforming the system of health care finance. Since the introduction of its compulsory health insurance fund in 1997, the country has gradually moved from subsidizing the supply of services to subsidizing the purchase of services through the 'single payer' of the health insurance fund. In 2002 the governme...