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Regulation and Administered Contracts Revisited: Lessons from Transaction-Cost Economics for Public Utility Regulation

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Crocker, Keith J
Masten, Scott E

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This article reexamines the administered contracts approach to regulation in light of recent empirical research that establishes the importance of transaction-costs in the organizational choice and design decisions. After reviewing the fundamentals of transaction cost reasoning and the franchise bidding-versus-regulation debate, the study surveys the empirical literature on franchise bidding, contracting, and vertical integration. The implications of transaction-cost theories for current policies toward public utility regulation and deregulation are also addressed. Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Journal of Regulatory Economics.

Volume (Year): 9 (1996)
Issue (Month): 1 (January)
Pages: 5-39
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