Regulation and monopoly power
Avoids abuse of monopoly power
Regulatory capture
Regulatory agencies may become dominated by the industries they are supposed to be regulating
Occurs when there is assymetry of information
De regulation
Removal of regulation to promote competitiveness by reducing barriers to entry
Customer inertia
Tendency of customers to remain with a provider due to information failure bounded rationality or customer loyalty
Regulation of monopolies
Price capping - limiting price increases
Regulation of merges
Breaking up monopolies
Investigation into unfair prices
RPI- x allowed to increase prices but not exceed limitations
Nationalisation - govement ownership