Title

Taxation By Regulation And Regulation By Taxation: The Case Of Local Cable Tv Regulation

Keywords

Consumer welfare; Regulation by taxation; Taxation by regulation

Abstract

Until late 1986, municipalities played a major role in cable television regulation. Municipalities not only regulated pricing and quality decisions but also taxed cable systems in the forms of in-kind and in-cash concessions. These activities appear to fit well with the concept of taxation-by-regulation, which concludes that consumer welfare is reduced because of the rent seeking behavior of local politicians. At the same time however, the notion of regulation-by-taxation is equally plausible. That is, politicians may use taxation as a means to regulate the activity of a monopoly by limiting monopoly rents and improving consumer welfare. This article empirically separates these two effects and investigates the implications for consumer welfare.

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Publication Title

Review of Industrial Organization

Volume

21

Issue

1

Number of Pages

21-40

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016010220042

Socpus ID

0036329671 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0036329671

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