The proposition presented in this thesis is that the use of the "Agreed Charges" by the Canadian railroads was designed merely as an instrument to improve their place in the growing intermodal competition in Canadian transport. However, the thesis has revealed potential effects for the Canadian economy extending beyond this purpose. These effects grow out of the influence that Agreed Charges have had on the marketing "reach" of Canadian manufacturers, and the consequential location of industry. The competitive purpose of Agreed Charges is reviewed by a study of their origin and effects in transportation in England preceding any experience with them in Canada. This is followed by reference to Canadian legislation of 1938 which presented the detailed legislation authority for Agreed Charges as they developed in Canada. The basic competitive purpose of the new rate device is evaluated by a study of its effects on the railroads and their competitors. The effects of Agreed Charges on the Canadian economy going beyond this competitive purpose is then studied through describing and appraising the influence which they had on the inter-regional marketing of a number of. products. Through this study the influence shows itself in permitting enlarged production in certain regions in Canada by extending the marketing areas beyond those that could be reached without Agreed Charges; and it shows itself in the preferences it gave to Canadian manufactured products over competitive products from abroad. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

In September 1979, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a statement entitled Financial Reporting and Changing Prices (FASB No. 33). FASB No. 33 requires publicly-held companies of a certain size to issue supplementary constant dollar and current cost disclosures along with their primary financial statements.To investigate the effect of the signals on security prices the study used a methodology known as "Iso-beta Portfolio Analysis" and employed different models in conjunction with the methodology, the market model (MM) and a new model called "the multi-index model" (MIM). Cluster analysis was used to develop the indexing used with the MIM.

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This thesis examines the theoretical properties of different price cap schemes that have been applied in the UK and the USA. The objective is to assess the consequences for price structures and welfare of different ways of defining the regulated price index. Chapter 2 surveys the literature on regulation under asymmetric information that is related to price caps. Chapter 3 presents a general analysis of five main types of price cap when the regulated firm sets linear tariffs. The schemes are the Tariff Basket (TB) scheme, the Fixed Weights (F) scheme, the Average Revenue (AR) scheme, the Average Revenue (Lagged) scheme, and the Paasche Price Index (PPI) scheme. The TB and PPI schemes generate efficient price structures in the long run, whereas prices are inefficient under the other schemes. In Chapter 4 the consequences of allowing freedom to set different prices, relative to the case of uniform prices, are analyzed. The conditions for price freedom to be desirable are derived for the case where the price level is not regulated. When the price level is regulated it is shown that AR regulation can cause welfare to be below the level that obtains without any regulation. Chapter 5 contains an analysis of the five price caps examined in Chapter 3 for the case where the firm sets a two-part tariff. The AR and PPI schemes are dominated, and the conditions under which TB, F and ARL are optimal are established. Chapter 6 explores some issues in the regulation of nonlinear tariffs by AR and TB price caps. Chapter 7 considers some extensions of the analysis. It is shown that when quality is a choice variable, the regulator is concerned about income distribution and there is demand growth the TB scheme can be adapted and retains its desirable properties. Chapter 8 contains conclusions and suggestions for future work.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics and Social Science Consortium. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006. / "A dissertation in economics and social science consortium." Advisor: Mathew Forstater. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Oct. 31, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-241). Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Rhode Island, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-205).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1973. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 303-310).

Thesis (M.M. (ICT Policy and Regulation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013. / Cannot copy abstract

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

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