The Life Cycle of Regulatory Agencies: Dynamic Capture and Transaction Costs |
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Authors: | David Martimort |
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Affiliation: | Universitéde Pau et des Pays de l'Adour |
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Abstract: | The dynamics of regulation is analysed in a model where regulatory capture comes from the repeated interaction between an interest group and a regulatory agency. Regulatory institutions offer a framework for this dynamic process. They put constraints on the interest group's influence. The dynamics of regulation and its long-run outcome depend on the political principal's, the regulator's and the regulated form's time preferences and their information. Some foundations for the transaction costs of side-contracting used in the standard literature on collusion are provided. Those transaction costs are linked to the precise nature of regulatory institutions. |
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