Corruption and optimal regulation under common agency

I show that it is optimal to separate non-benevolent regulators when regulated projects are large. Separation prevents regulators from coordinating to appropriate all of the agent's informational rent when they know the type of the latter; therefore, there is a trade-off between saving on infor...

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Main Author: Pedro Hemsley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2016-05-01
Series:EconomiA
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1517758016300765