We study the incentives of regulated firmato acuire costly information under price cap regulation. We show that revenue sharing plans, in the spirit proposed by Sappington and Weisman (Inf. Econ. Policy 8 (1996) 229) can provide greater incentives for information acquisition than pure price capping and increase social welfare.
Price Cap Regulation,Revenue Sharing and Information Acquisition / Elisabetta, Iossa; Stroffolini, Francesca. - In: INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY. - ISSN 0167-6245. - STAMPA. - 17:(2005), pp. 217-223.
Price Cap Regulation,Revenue Sharing and Information Acquisition
STROFFOLINI, FRANCESCA
2005
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We study the incentives of regulated firmato acuire costly information under price cap regulation. We show that revenue sharing plans, in the spirit proposed by Sappington and Weisman (Inf. Econ. Policy 8 (1996) 229) can provide greater incentives for information acquisition than pure price capping and increase social welfare.File in questo prodotto:
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