Incentives for cost shifting and misreporting: US rural universal service subsidies, 1991–2002

Information Economics and Policy - Tập 23 - Trang 287-295 - 2011
Sanford V. Berg1, Liangliang Jiang2, Chen Lin3
1Department of Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
2Department of Economics, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
3Department of Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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Information Economics and Policy

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