Studies in public regulation
By: edited by Gary Fromm.
Contributors: Fromm, Gary.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: MIT Press series on the regulation of economic activity ;; 4
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Trade regulation -- United States -- Congresses; Trade regulation -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sponsored by National Bureau of Economic Research.
Table of contents: title: Regulation in theory and practice / Paul L. Joskow and Roger G. Noll; title: Income-distribution concerns in regulatory policymaking / Robert D. Willig and Elizabeth E. Bailey; title: Theory of solvency regulation in the property and casualty insurance industry / Patricia Munch and Dennis Smallwood; title: Regulation, barriers to exit, and the investment behavior of railroads / Richard C. Levin; title: The political economy of federal regulatory activity / Robert A. Leone and John E. Jackson; title: Regulation and the multiproduct firm / Melvyn A. Fuss and Leonard Waverman; title: Open entry and cross-subsidization in regulated markets / Kenneth C. Baseman; title: Current developments in the economics of regulation / Sam Peltzman.