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Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario

By: Mark w. Frankena,David T. Scheffman

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Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario

By: Mark w. Frankena,David T. Scheffman

This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply and Price of Serviced Residential Land and the province's Green Paper on Planning for Agriculture. The authors criticize the government's failure to conduct cost-benefit studies before setting up planning programs and show that there is little factual basis for recent alarm over the disappearance of farmland. Data gathered here for the first time show that the conversion of agricultural land to built-up urban use and non-farm rural residential use in Ontario has been taking place quite slowly in view of the rate of productivity increase in agriculture, the stock of agricultural land, and the decline in the acreage of census farms. Economists will find in this book a useful survey of recent trends and policies. Planners, policy-makers, and students will welcome this detailed case study of how economic analysis ought to be used in formulating land use policies.

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256

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University of Toronto Press

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1487597215

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9781487597214

Vertical Integration in Cable Television

By: David Waterman,Andrew Weiss

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Vertical Integration in Cable Television

By: David Waterman,Andrew Weiss

The authors address claims that vertical ownership ties reduce programming diversity, restrict entry of competitors to cable, or have other socially undesirable effects

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224

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844740675

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9780844740676

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition

By: W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.,David E. M. Sappington

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition

By: W. Kip Viscusi,Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.,David E. M. Sappington

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound regulatory and antitrust policy. Regulation and antitrust are key elements of government policy. This new edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy explains how the latest theoretical and empirical economic tools can be employed to analyze pressing regulatory and antitrust issues. The book departs from the common emphasis on institutions, focusing instead on the relevant underlying economic issues, using state-of-the-art analysis to assess the appropriate design of regulatory and antitrust policy. Extensive case studies illustrate fundamental principles and provide insight on key issues in regulation and antitrust policy. This fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, reflecting both the latest developments in economic analysis and recent economic events. The text examines regulatory practices through the end of the Obama and beginning of the Trump administrations. New material includes coverage of global competition and the activities of the European Commission; recent mergers, including Comcast-NBC Universal; antitrust in the new economy, including investigations into Microsoft and Google; the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the Dodd-Frank Act; the FDA approval process; climate change policies; and behavioral economics as a tool for designing regulatory strategies.

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1001

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MIT Press

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0262346915

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9780262346917

Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry

By: David E. Sappington,Dennis L. Weisman

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Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry

By: David E. Sappington,Dennis L. Weisman

This book applies new advances in economic theory regarding the asymmetry of information between firms and their regulators to the design of improved telecommunications regulation.

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416

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844740594

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9780844740591

Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario

Theory and Evidence

By: Charles M. Beach,Frank Flatters,David E. Card

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Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario

Theory and Evidence

By: Charles M. Beach,Frank Flatters,David E. Card

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being. The empirical results illustrate how incomes vary significantly with age according to labour market attachment and experience, educational attainment and occupation, transfer receipts, and investment benefits. Similarly, strong age effects on net worth account reflect life-cycle patterns in asset holdings and debts typically associated with family investment in housing and financial adjustments for retirement. Differences in family size and composition have a substantial effect on the structure of family economic well-being. The inequality effects of adjusting for accrued capital gains and net worth holdings can also be quite significant. It is found that the distributional effects of CPP net benefits are considerable, although they are not as equalizing as one may have expected because of marked cohort effects. The detailed findings suggest that the life-cycle framework is a very useful one for evaluating the distributional effects of certain government programs, particularly intertemporal ones, and they underline the need for a range of different types of policies to address low income problems. The study urges greater recognition of the inequality of treatment and opportunity among different groups of the population. It also points out that conventional income distribution figures are only very imperfect estimates of the state of inequality in the underlying distribution of economic well-being.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442633387

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Book's by David T. Scheffman

Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario

Economic Analysis of Provincial Land Use Policies in Ontario

Vertical Integration in Cable Television

Vertical Integration in Cable Television

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, fifth edition

Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry

Designing Incentive Regulation for the Telecommunications Industry

Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario

Distribution of Income and Wealth in Ontario

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