Pro-Consumer Price Ceilings under Regulatory Uncertainty
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- John Bennett & Ioana Chioveanu, 2019. "Pro‐Consumer Price Ceilings under Regulatory Uncertainty," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 121(4), pages 1757-1784, October.
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price regulation; consumer surplus; uncertainty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MKT-2016-07-09 (Marketing)
- NEP-REG-2016-07-09 (Regulation)
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