Economic Regulation

An Economic Regulation is a regulation that applies to an economic system.

• See: Economics, Regulation, Law, Government, Planned Economy, Market Failure, Capture (Politics), Regulatory Capture, Regulatory Capture, Regulatory Economics.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regulatory_economics Retrieved:2014-5-29.
  • Regulatory economics is the economics of regulation, in the sense of the application of law by government for various purposes, such as centrally-planning an economy, remedying market failure, enriching well-connected firms, or benefiting politicians (see capture). It is not considered to include voluntary regulation that may be accomplished in the private sphere.

    Countering, overriding, or bypassing regulation is Regulatory Capture where a regulatory agency created to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or special concerns of interest groups that dominate the industry that the agency is charged with regulating. The probability of regulatory capture is economically biased, in that vested interests in an industry have the greatest financial stake in regulatory activity and are more likely to be motivated to influence the regulatory body than dispersed individual consumers, each of whom has little particular incentive to try to influence regulators. Thus the likelihood of regulatory capture is a risk to which an agency is exposed by its very nature.

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