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The Effect of Private Interests on Regulated Retail and Wholesale Prices

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  • Gregory L. Rosston
  • Scott J. Savage
  • Bradley S. Wimmer
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    This paper examines how regulators behave in markets when there is a tension between retail competition and cross subsidy. Using retail and wholesale prices from regional Bell operating company territories and price-cost margins as a proxy for political influence, we find that private interests influence the structure of retail prices, especially favoring rural residential customers. Political influence also extends to wholesale access prices, although the magnitude of its effect is small. Federal high-cost universal service payments to a state do not reduce prices in that state's rural areas but instead lower urban business prices. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved..

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    Article provided by University of Chicago Press in its journal The Journal of Law and Economics.

    Volume (Year): 51 (2008)
    Issue (Month): 3 (08)
    Pages: 479-501

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    Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlawec:v:51:y:2008:i:3:p:479-501

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    1. Jeffrey Macher & John Mayo, 2012. "The World of Regulatory Influence," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 59-79, February.
    2. Daniel Ackerberg & Michael Riordan & Gregory Rosston & Bradley Wimmer, 2009. "Low-Income Demand for Local Telephone Service: Effects of Lifeline and Linkup," Discussion Papers 08-047, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, revised Aug 2009.

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