Uma nova teoria de comportamento da agência reguladora de monopólios e oligopólios
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monopoly, oligopoly, price regulationAbstract
The objective of this paper is to model the behavior of an agency that is in charge of controlling monopoly and oligopoly dominated markets. The main innovation of this model Is in the equilibrium condition. The agency must equilibrate the losses and gains between consumers and producers. The agency act over two main markets: tradable and non-tradable goods. The main results are as follows: i) the traditional price control result does not hold under this model; ii.) the price control imposed on non tradable goods must be the monopoly one or the expected by the monopoly; Hi) the price control on tradable goods must be equivalent to the international price of the goods.
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