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Increasing Returns to Scale and Optimal Investment Policy of the Regulated Firm

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  • Seiichi Katayama

    (Kobe University)

  • Fumio Abe

    (Kagawa Unversity)

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This paper investigates the optimal investment behavior of the regulated profit-maximizing monopoly that exhibits increasing returns to scale. The Averch-Johnson effect of overcapitalization is reconsidered in a dynamic adjustment cost model with non-concave revenue function. We show that there may be three cases of undercapitalization, overcapitalization and neutrality. In particular, we make clear the role of the assumption of increasing returns to scale or the non-concave revenue function and show that the crucial point in the Averch-Johnson argument is not the economies of scale but the level of the regulated rate of return.

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  • Seiichi Katayama & Fumio Abe, 1989. "Increasing Returns to Scale and Optimal Investment Policy of the Regulated Firm," Kobe Economic & Business Review, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University, vol. 34, pages 85-100.
    • Handle: RePEc:kob:review:1989::v:34:p:85-100
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