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The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation … consumers' preferences. -- Optimal incentive regulation ; regulatory risk ; procurement ; information rents …
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prefer regulatory risk and these preferences may contradict both the firm's and consumers'. -- optimal incentive regulation …
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We analyze the treatment and impact of idiosyncratic or firm-specific risk in regulation. Regulatory authorities … regulation. In contrast, it is common to apply only a single benchmark, the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), uniformly to ….0 percentage points depending on the size of the firm (in the range of 3% to 40% of total cost of capital). Regulation of …
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Assets with a value of over $130billion are regulated in Australia. We define regulatory risk as being regulation that …
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implications are higher the more heterogeneous the sector is. As an example, we use the Danish benchmarking regulation of the waste …
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This study aims at characterizing the optimal regulation of risky activities when risk assessment is subjective as a …
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We investigate the impact of regulatory risk on vertical integration and upstream investment by a regulated firm that provides an essential input to downstream competitors. Regulatory risk reflects uncertainty about the regulator's commitment to a regulatory policy that promotes the regulated...
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regulation of risks associated with production, consumption, and the environment, Professor Timur Kuran and Cass R. Sunstein …
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We examine an environmental policy which may be revisited by a new administration. We allow for pollution to be persistent over time and for uncertainty in next period's environmental policy. When pollution is non-persistent, we show that regulatory uncertainty is inconsequential for output,...
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It has been argued that the threat of regulatory intervention affects firm behavior. We investigate the pricing decision of the dominant firm under regulatory threat, considering the probability of intervention as a function of the price. Our focus is on the case where the potential divestiture...
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