Cost‐Padding in Profit‐Regulated Firms*
作者:
ROBERT P. ALBON,
MICHAEL G. KIRBY,
期刊:
Economic Record
(WILEY Available online 1983)
卷期:
Volume 59,
issue 1
页码: 16-27
ISSN:0013-0249
年代: 1983
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4932.1983.tb00577.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
When entry into an industry is restricted, economic regulation of that industry is often directed at preventing existing firms from monopoly pricing behaviour. One form of such regulation is to set prices so as to control the level of profits earned by these firms. This paper briefly reviews the relevant economic literature and presents a model of the regulated firm in which such price‐setting procedures provide an incentive to inflate costs above minimum levels. The welfare cost of this form of regulation can then exceed that occurring at the unconstrained monopoly outcome. The setting of air fares under the Two‐Airline Policy and the regulation of natural gas in NSW are discussed in the context of this analy
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