Delegation to Independent Regulators and the Ratchet Effect
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delegation; ratchet effect; procurement;All these keywords.
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- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
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- NEP-IND-2011-09-22 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2011-09-22 (Microeconomics)
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