content can be expected to emerge. Hence, in the absence of any regulation, the sugar content of sugar-sweetened beverages …

characteristics. We first show how preferences that account for price and unit cost constrain the firm’s pricing power and profit …

We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly … breaks-even. With costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. Under unit demand and fixed quality, price is independent of …

pay the price. By exerting a costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. To maximize the total surplus, a regulator sets … the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially costly transfers to ensure the monopoly's participation. We obtain … a modified Ramsey formula, which clearly shows that the mere existence of evaders dampens the use of the price as a mean …

We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly … breaks-even. With costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. Under unit demand and fixed quality, price is independent of …

prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been … price regulations. Consumers demand stricter fuel price regulations to provide transparency about the current price level … and to protect them from sudden price fluctuations. Such regulations are already in place in several countries, but …

transfer scheme called “gas price brake.” A unique feature of this energy price relief measure is that both households and the … industry receive a transfer that increases in one’s actual gas price. In a formal model, we show that such a transfer scheme … overcome this adverse effect of the gas price brake. An equivalent critique applies to the electricity price brake that is to …

We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and … retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during …

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …