Investment without Regulatory Commitment: The Case of Elastic Demand

Santiago Urbiztondo

Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1994, vol. 6, issue 1, 87-96

Abstract: This paper analyzes a regulation game with asymmetric information and lack of commitment. It expands Besanko and Spulber's (1989) framework to the case of elastic demands using a generalized Nash solution. It is found that the most important property of the equilibrium with inelastic demand is not carried over to the elastic demand case, i.e., incomplete information worsens underinvestment, contrasting to Besanko and Spulber's result. Copyright 1994 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1994
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