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Spatial price homogeneity as a mechanism to reduce the threat of regulatory intervention in locally monopolistic sectors

Magnus Söderberg
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We claim that a reason for why unregulated investor-owned local monopolies do not always charge the monopoly price is that they are threatened by customer complaints that may lead to retaliations from local elected officials. When investor-owned monopolies are exposed to this threat they will mimic the price(s) of their neighbour(s); the stronger the threat, the higher the spatial price correlation. The threat increases when elected officials have pro-consumer preferences and neighbours are geographically close. The empirical analysis, based on a complete cross-sectional data set from the Swedish district heating sector in 2007, confirms the theoretical predictions.
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hal-00659458 , version 1 (12-01-2012)

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Magnus Söderberg, Makoto Tanaka. Spatial price homogeneity as a mechanism to reduce the threat of regulatory intervention in locally monopolistic sectors. 2012. ⟨hal-00659458⟩
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