The economics of federalism is a broad discipline with more than five decades of experience. It may shed light on how regulatory jurisdiction is allocated in EU electricity and telecommunications markets. Specifically, this paper assesses the evolution of reform up to and including the third EU packages, which continue the liberalization and integration process in these markets. Liberalization ...

Pre-hardened steel (P20) is a widely used material in the production of moulds/dies due to less wear resistance and used for large components. In this study, minimization of surface roughness has been investigated by integrating design of experiment method, Response surface methodology (RSM) and genetic algorithm. To achieve the minimum surface roughness optimal conditions are determined. The e...

The degree of liberalization in OECD electricity markets varies considerably across countries. Commonly explained by diverging economic performances, corruption levels or government ideologies, this paper suggest another potential reason for cross-national differences in market reforms: given the high financial dependence of regulatory actors on public funding both in the past and nowadays, we ...

Litigants are generally charged for using court services. The charges involved are usually set to achieve a combination of efficiency, equity and funding goals. This paper presents a simple model, based on regulated monopoly pricing, to address the question of how these charges should be set. We find that fixed fees generally form part of the optimal charging package, despite concerns about the...

With a steady increase of regulatory requirements for business processes, automation support of compliance management is a field garnering increasing attention in Information Systems research. Several approaches have been developed to support compliance checking of process models. One major challenge for such approaches is their ability to handle different modeling techniques and compliance rul...

This paper reviews competition policies in Chile. It argues that competition policy should strive to reduce entry, fixed and variable costs where that is technically feasible; reduce the costs of reallocating resources across firms and sectors; and foster tough price competition. It also shows that reducing concentration is the wrong policy goal because tougher price competition will increase e...

This paper examines the price response of wireless carriers to the introduction of number portability. We …nd that wireless prices decreased in response to number portability, but not uniformly across plans. Average prices for the plans with the fewest minutes decreased by only $0.19/month (0.97%), but average prices for mediumand high-volume plans decreased by $3.64/month (4.84%) and $10.29/mo...

The electron-impact ionization cross section for hydrogen near threshold is calculated using both timedependent wave-packet and time-dependent Green’s-function methods. The time-dependent Green’s-function method also allows the calculation of the elastic cross section. The need for absorbing potentials was removed by allowing our fast waves to leave our two-dimensional grid. Two different model...

This article critically analyses the opportunities for Australia to revitalise its strategically important manufacturing sector in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. It considers Australia’s industry policy options on basis both advances theory industrial and recent proposals Australian context. draws work from The Institute’s Centre Future Work examining prospects renewal a post-COVID-19 economy, toge...