Tight Average Revenue Regulation Can Be Worse Than No Regulation

A-Tier
Journal: Journal of Industrial Economics
Year: 1997
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Pages: 75-88

Score contribution per author:

4.036 = (α=2.02 / 1 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Price regulation of a multi‐market monopolist, with the cap based on average revenue, can cause welfare to be below the unregulated level. In a model with linear demands and constant but unequal marginal costs, a sufficient condition for this welfare effect is that the cap equals the average revenue that would be earned with marginal cost pricing. Relaxation of the price cap can lower all prices. Welfare with uniform pricing at the level of the price cap can be above or below the average revenue welfare level.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:jindec:v:45:y:1997:i:1:p:75-88
Journal Field
Industrial Organization
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25