TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bös, Dieter.
TI  - Pricing and price regulation: an economic theory for public enterprises and public utilities
T2  - Advanced Featbooks in economics
SN  - 0444884785
AV  - HF 5416 .5 .B67 1994 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - [S.l.]
PB  - Elsevier
KW  - Precios
KW  - Política de precios
N1  - 1. Introduction, 1 --; Part One. The Basic Pricing Model --; 2. Special Pricing Rules: Objectives and Constraints, 3 --; 3. Normative Optimum Theory, 37 --; 4. Positive Optimum Theory, 83 --; 5. Normative Piecemeal Theory, 91 --; 6. Positive Piecemeal Theory, 108 --; Part Two. Normative Theory Pricing Policies for Welfare Maximization --; A. Basic Rules --; 7. Marginal-Cost Pricing, 119 --; 8. Ramsey Pricing, 130 --; 9. Pricing with Distributional Aims, 142 --; 10. Adjustment to Private Monopolistic Pricing, 151 --; B. Intermediate Goods --; 11. Optimal Pricing of Publicly Supplied Intermediate Goods, 156 --; C. Adjustment to Rationed Markets --; 12. Rationed Labor Market, 167 --; 13. Capacity Limits of Public Transportation, 175 --; D. Time-Dependent Pricing --; 14. Pricing Through Time and Adjustment Clauses, 181 --; 15. Peak-Load Pricing, 185 --; E. Pricing When Quality Matters --; 16. Different Approaches Toward Optimal Quality, 196 --; Part Three. Positive Theory Pricing Policies for Political and Bureaucratic Aims --; 17. Winning Vote, 217 --; 18. Minimizing Price Indices, 224 --; 19. Maximizing Budgets, 227 --; 20. Maximizing Output or Revenue, Saving Energy, 231 --; 21. The Influence of Unions, 235 --; 22. Quality in Positive-Theory Models, 238 --; 23. A Set of Axioms for Prices to Achieve a Fair Allocation of Costs, 242 --; Part Four. Price Regulation --; A. Can Welfare-Optimal Prices be Achieved by Simple Rules? --; 24. Regulating Marginal-Cost Prices, 249 --; 25. Regulating Ramsey Prices, 264 --; B. Practical Regulatory Constraints --; 26. Rate-of-Return Regulation, 269 --; 27. Price-Cap Regulation, 278 --; C. The New Economics of Price Regulation --; 28. The Principal-Agent Framework, 289 --; 29. Asymmetric Information on Costs, 306 --; 30. Asymmetric Information on Demand, 326 --; 31. Soft Budget Constraints, 341 --; 32. Non-Linear Pricing, 353 --; 33. Positive Theory of Price Regulation, 368 --; D. regulation Through Competition --; 34. Mixed Markets, 383 --; Appendices: Appendix 1. The Size of the Public Enterprise Sector in Europe, 400 --; Appendix 2. The Size of the Government and Regulated Enterprise Sector in the United States, 404 --; List of Symbols, 407 --; References, 413 --; Author Index, 437 --; Subject Index, 445
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