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Prices vs. quantities with endogenous cost structure
Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - 2014
Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …
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Irreversible investments and regulatory risk
Panteghini, Paolo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2003
This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm s investment choices when the firm has an option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits go beyond a given level. It is shown that a pure price...
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Investment size and firm's value under profit sharing regulation
Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2003
In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm s start-up decision relative to a pure price cap...
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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations
Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002
Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409371
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Delegation of regulation
Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore - 2017
We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700470
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Commodity taxation and regulatory competion
Moriconi, Simone; Picard, Pierre M.; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2017
This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603122
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Prices versus quantities reassessed
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2018
"Prices versus quantities" (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper's criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and trade....
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158085
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Market contestability and bribe solicitations : evidence across stages of firms' operations
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Saunoris, James W. - 2018
Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in business operations on bribe solicitations. Contestability undermines bureaucratic rent-seeking potential and this paper tries to capture this empirically using cross-country...
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Ramsey pricing revisited : natural monopoly regulation with evaders
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolás; Guzmán, León - 2023
We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not pay the price. By exerting a costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. To maximize the total surplus, a regulator sets the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially...
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