Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to extend the Averch-Johnson model of the regulated firm so as to allow for the endogenous selection of factor augmenting technical change. A simple model is developed which avoids the questions of timing, capitalization, and internalization of innovations and focuses on the incentives to a firm for innovational choice under cost minimizing conditions versus several formulations of the regulated setting. The results suggest that regulation can distort the innovational selections. Moreover, in the case of the profit maximizing firm subject to ″fair″ return on investment regulation, the innovational choices will reinforce the static overcapitalization tendencies.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Bell J Econ Manage Sci |
| Pages | 623-632 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Edition | 2 |
| State | Published - Sep 1974 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering