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Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Certification Of Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder Nov 2006

Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Certification Of Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder Nov 2006

Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder Nov 2006

Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards., Shyam Sunder Nov 2006

Regulation, Competition And Independence In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards., Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


The How And Why Of The New Public Corporation Tax Shelter Compliance Norm, Susan Cleary Morse Nov 2006

The How And Why Of The New Public Corporation Tax Shelter Compliance Norm, Susan Cleary Morse

Susan Cleary Morse

This paper examines the recent shift toward an anti-tax shelter federal income tax compliance norm at public corporations, as evidenced by practitioner and government comments and survey results. The paper focuses on the organizational behavior of tax decisionmakers within public corporations as they respond to Sarbanes-Oxley, enforcement and publicity initiatives, and tax shelter regulation.

The paper identifies three elements that have contributed to the development of a stronger tax compliance norm. First, Sarbanes-Oxley has resulted in the expansion and increased transparency of public corporation tax decisionmaking groups. Organizational behavior insights suggest that this may produce more considered decisions. Second, civil …


Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder Sep 2006

Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder Sep 2006

Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder Aug 2006

Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder Aug 2006

Regulation And Markets In A Certification Society: Financial Reports Vs. Baseball Cards, Shyam Sunder

Shyam Sunder

No abstract provided.


Soap Box: If Katina Michael Could Send A Message To Government, It Would Be This..., K. Michael Jun 2006

Soap Box: If Katina Michael Could Send A Message To Government, It Would Be This..., K. Michael

Professor Katina Michael

No abstract provided.


Broadband And Unbundling Regulations In Oecd Countries, Scott J. Wallsten Jun 2006

Broadband And Unbundling Regulations In Oecd Countries, Scott J. Wallsten

Scott J. Wallsten

Broadband penetration and available speeds vary widely across OECD countries. Policymakers around the world, and especially in countries like the U.S. that lag in the rankings, are searching for policies to narrow those gaps. Relatively little empirical work tests possible reasons for these differences. In this paper I test the impacts of regulations and demographics on broadband development in a panel dataset across countries. In addition to adding to the meager empirical literature on broadband across countries, this paper is novel in two ways. First, it explicitly takes into account the many different types of unbundling regulations that countries have …


Within And Between Group Variation Of Individual Strategies In Common Pool Resources: Evidence From Field Experiments, Maria Alejandra Velez, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund Apr 2006

Within And Between Group Variation Of Individual Strategies In Common Pool Resources: Evidence From Field Experiments, Maria Alejandra Velez, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund

John K. Stranlund

With data from framed common pool resource experiments conducted with artisanal fishing communities in Colombia, we estimate a hierarchical linear model to investigate within-group and between-group variation in individual harvest strategies across several institutions. Our results suggest that communication serves to effectively coordinate individual strategies within groups, but that these coordinated strategies vary considerably across groups. In contrast, weakly enforced regulatory restrictions on individual harvests (as well as unregulated open access) produce significant variation in the individual strategies within groups, but these strategies are roughly replicated across groups so that there is little between-group variation.


Telecommunication Regulation Of Thailand And Its Commitments Of Progressive Liberalization To Wto, Piyabutr Bunaramrueang Mar 2006

Telecommunication Regulation Of Thailand And Its Commitments Of Progressive Liberalization To Wto, Piyabutr Bunaramrueang

piyabutr bunaramrueang

Domestic regulation of telecommunication services sector is a part of the obligations and specific commitments under the General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) of WTO. Reference paper is the instrument that includes a set of the regulatory disciplines resulted from the negotiations, and based on the principles of objective, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. Thailand, as a participant of the negotiations, has undertaken those disciplines with few modifications as additional commitments; however, the modifications are not objective comparing to those of other participants. Nonetheless, it is a possibility that Thailand might undertake the Reference Paper eventually as a whole. To …


Telecommunications Regulation In U.S. States: Its Rise And Impacts In The Early Twentieth Century, Scott J. Wallsten Mar 2006

Telecommunications Regulation In U.S. States: Its Rise And Impacts In The Early Twentieth Century, Scott J. Wallsten

Scott J. Wallsten

No abstract provided.


Centralized And Decentralized Management Of Local Common Pool Resources In The Developing World: Experimental Evidence From Fishing Communities In Colombia, Maria Alejandra Velez, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund Mar 2006

Centralized And Decentralized Management Of Local Common Pool Resources In The Developing World: Experimental Evidence From Fishing Communities In Colombia, Maria Alejandra Velez, James J. Murphy, John K. Stranlund

John K. Stranlund

This paper uses experimental data to test for a complementary relationship between formal regulations imposed on a community to conserve a local natural resource and nonbinding verbal agreements to do the same. Our experiments were conducted in the field in three regions of Colombia. Each group of five subjects played 10 rounds of an open access common pool resource game, and 10 additional rounds under one of five institutions— communication alone, two external regulations that differed by the level of enforcement, and communication combined with each of the two regulations. Our results suggest that the hypothesis of a complementary relationship …


Taxing Alternatives: Poverty Alleviation And The South African Taxi/Minibus Industry, Karol C. Boudreaux Feb 2006

Taxing Alternatives: Poverty Alleviation And The South African Taxi/Minibus Industry, Karol C. Boudreaux

Karol C. Boudreaux

South Africa's transporation landscape is a legacy of apartheid. Apartheid-era laws forcibly moved black South Africans out of city centers to surrounding townships. In rural areas, black South Africans were moved off valuable farmland and onto marginally productive homelands. Laws and regulations limiting employment opportunities meant that black citizens lived far from work. Under the National Party government, the ability to serve people who wanted to travel from home to work or home to shopping areas, etc. was severely resitricted. So too was the ability to travel. The minibus industry arose in response to these restrictions. It began as a …


Economic Impacts Of The 2004 Services Directive, Henk Lm Kox Feb 2006

Economic Impacts Of The 2004 Services Directive, Henk Lm Kox

Henk LM Kox

#1; About CPB #1; Our research on Services Directive #1; Policy differences as market-entry barrier #1; Effects of Services Directive on trade and FDI #1; Macroeconomic effects #1; Role country-of-origin principle #1; The way ahead


Neutral Investment Revisited, Alejandro Faya Rodriguez Jan 2006

Neutral Investment Revisited, Alejandro Faya Rodriguez

Alejandro Faya Rodriguez

No abstract provided.


Major Expropriation Case Decided By The Mexican Supreme Court Of Justice, The Due Process Requirement And Its Correlation With International Treaties, Alejandro Faya Rodriguez Jan 2006

Major Expropriation Case Decided By The Mexican Supreme Court Of Justice, The Due Process Requirement And Its Correlation With International Treaties, Alejandro Faya Rodriguez

Alejandro Faya Rodriguez

No abstract provided.


Universal Telecommunications Service In India, Roger G. Noll, Scott J. Wallsten Jan 2006

Universal Telecommunications Service In India, Roger G. Noll, Scott J. Wallsten

Scott J. Wallsten

No abstract provided.


The Trade-Induced Effects Of The Services Directive And The Country-Of-Origin Principle, Roland De Bruijn, Henk Lm Kox, Arjan Lejour Dec 2005

The Trade-Induced Effects Of The Services Directive And The Country-Of-Origin Principle, Roland De Bruijn, Henk Lm Kox, Arjan Lejour

Henk LM Kox

The proposed Services Directive by the European Commission could increase intra European trade in commercial services by 30 to 60 percent. This paper analyses the welfare effects of the trade growth using an applied general equilibrium model WorldScan. It shows that GDP could be raised by 0.3 to 0.7 percent and consumption by 0.5 to 1.2 percent in the European Union as a whole. These results could only be realised if the Services Directive is implemented including the country of origin principle. If this principle is excluded from the directive, trade increases only by 20 to 40 percent. The trade-induced …


Runoff And Reality: Externalities, Economics, And Traceability Issues In Urban Runoff Regulation, Donald J. Kochan Dec 2005

Runoff And Reality: Externalities, Economics, And Traceability Issues In Urban Runoff Regulation, Donald J. Kochan

Donald J. Kochan

It has long eluded regulators and private enforcers how to control the imposition of negative externalities. This paper will examine: (1) Whether existing authorities (like the Clean Water Act) are capable of providing regulation of urban runoff; (2) Whether, in light of economic controls, regulation of these activities are necessary; (3) A summary of recent runoff litigation; and (4) What is next; what should be next? Although each of these questions form background, the primary emphasis currently anticipated for this presentation is on traceability, collective action, and free rider problems that motivate regulation in this area. Often runoff is described …