Political Price Cycles in Regulated Industries : Theory and Evidence /
This paper develops a model of political regulation in which politicians set the regulated price in order to maximize electoral support by signaling to voters a pro-consumer behavior. Political incentives and welfare constraints interact in the model, yielding an equilibrium in which the real price...
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| Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2006.
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| Col·lecció: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2006/260 |
| Accés en línia: | Full text available on IMF |