The Regulatory Process: Principals, Agents, and Information Flows

Autor: Carl Pechman
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age ISBN: 9780792393474
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-3258-3_3
Popis: The regulatory process is information-intensive. In this process, utilities have a comparative information advantage over regulatory commissions and other interested parties. Utilities are able to manipulate information flow to their own advantage in a number of ways. These include obstructing the flow of information (e.g.,through jurisdictional disputes); increasing the transactions costs of opponents in the regulatory process; misrepresenting facts; and complicating facts through complex modeling and then limiting access to those models.
Databáze: OpenAIRE