Recipes for monopoly regulation
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This monograph was the winner of the Nestlé Prize 2000 for the best Austrian PhD-Thesis in the Social Sciences. As it is not possible to introduce competition into every single market, there will still remain monopolies – like in the telecom or energy sector – which have to be put under public regulation. This book offers a look into the latest developments in regulatory practice and theory. What shall a regulator do when she wants to give incentives for cost minimization to the regulated firm and at the same time efficient prices to the consumers? After a comparison of different «real world» regulatory regimes, a simple theoretical model is used to assess the «real world» approaches and design optimal policies. The theoretical «recipes» are presented in a way which should be accessible to advanced students and «real world» regulators.
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Recipes for monopoly regulation, Christian Holzleitner
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- 2000
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- Title
- Recipes for monopoly regulation
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christian Holzleitner
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- Released
- 2000
- ISBN10
- 3631371314
- ISBN13
- 9783631371312
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- European university studies : Ser. 5, Economics and management
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- University and college textbooks
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- This monograph was the winner of the Nestlé Prize 2000 for the best Austrian PhD-Thesis in the Social Sciences. As it is not possible to introduce competition into every single market, there will still remain monopolies – like in the telecom or energy sector – which have to be put under public regulation. This book offers a look into the latest developments in regulatory practice and theory. What shall a regulator do when she wants to give incentives for cost minimization to the regulated firm and at the same time efficient prices to the consumers? After a comparison of different «real world» regulatory regimes, a simple theoretical model is used to assess the «real world» approaches and design optimal policies. The theoretical «recipes» are presented in a way which should be accessible to advanced students and «real world» regulators.