Browsing by Subject "Regulation"
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An economic analysis of the Public Transport Regulation Act, 2009
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)This paper analyses the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009, published on September 8, 2009. The Act provides for the regulation of public bus passenger services, changes the name of the Dublin Transport Authority to ... -
Are Consumer Decision-Making Phenomena a Fourth Market Failure?
(ESRI, 2013-04-30)This paper challenges the increasingly common view that the findings of behavioural economics constitute a fourth type of market failure. The market failure framework elevates the standard competitive market model to the ... -
Competition and Regulation in the Retail Pharmacy Market
(Trinity College Dublin, 2004)Competition and Regulation in the Retail Pharmacy Market examines the operation of the retail pharmacy market in Ireland and the regulatory environment in which it operates. Retail pharmacy is a billion euro industry in ... -
The Dublin Taxi Market: Re-regulate or Stay Queuing?
(Trinity College Dublin, 1998)The Dublin Taxi Market: Re-regulate or Stay Queuing? examines how this particular market is performing in terms of meeting the demands placed on it. It looks at the Dublin taxi market from a number of perspectives. The ... -
Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(Economic and Social Studies, 13/07/2011)The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and transport. ... -
Freedom or Free-For-All in Irish Healthcare? Establishing Improved Consumer Protection Mechanisms in the Irish Complementary and Alternative Medicine Sector
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2017)Despite political rhetoric, the establishment of working groups, and the publication of commissioned reports in the early and mid-2000s recommending improvements in the regulation of the Irish complementary and alternative ... -
Measuring particle size distribution and mass concentration of nanoplastics and microplastics: addressing some analytical challenges in the sub-micron size range
(2021)Hypothesis: The implementation of the proposal from the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) to restrict the use of nanoplastics (NP) and microplastics (MP) in consumer products will require reliable methods to perform size and ... -
Reading the fine print when buying your genetic self online: direct-to-consumer genetic testing terms and conditions
(2017)Contracts are ubiquitous online. Clickwrap and browsewrap agreements are to be encountered on almost every website a person engages with when accessing services online. Through these documents, people enter into binding ... -
Regulating unbundled network utilities
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)The new conventional wisdom is that network utilities should be unbundled, with the potentially competitive segments under separate ownership from the natural monopoly network. Regulation should provide the same incentives ... -
Regulators Nurturing FinTech Innovation: Global Evolution of The Regulatory Sandbox as Opportunity-Based Regulation
(2019)The emergence of the regulatory sandbox as a novel regulatory development in both developed and developing countries responds to the challenges faced by FinTech innovators in navigating an unwieldy regulatory landscape not ... -
Schistosoma "Eggs-Iting" the Host: Granuloma Formation and Egg Excretion.
(2018)Schistosomiasis is a major cause of morbidity in humans invoked by chronic infection with parasitic trematodes of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomes have a complex life-cycle involving infections of an aquatic snail ... -
Telecommunications Consumers: A Behavioural Economic Analysis
(ESRI, 12/12/2011)This paper argues that telecommunications markets present the consumer with a decision-making environment that is particularly likely to be prone to established biases in consumer decision-making. The analysis identifies ... -
Testing which proposed regulations need ?competition-proofing?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2006)When assessing the likely net impact of regulation, many jurisdictions test for specific effects on areas of concern, such as small businesses or the environment, as well as for more generalised costs and benefits. This ...