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Regulation and Deregulation after 25 Years: Lessons Learned for Research in Industrial Organization

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This paper is based on a keynote address given at the 2004 International Industrial Organization Conference in Chicago, April 2004. I draw selectively on the literature from the past 25 years on regulation/deregulation to provide important lessons about the attributes of good research in empirical industrial organization.

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Joskow, P.L. Regulation and Deregulation after 25 Years: Lessons Learned for Research in Industrial Organization. Rev Ind Organ 26, 169–193 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-004-7295-6

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