Regulating Prices to Equal Forward-Looking Costs: Cost-Based Prices or Price-Based Costs?

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-164

  Salinger, Michael A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032391967     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008057218273     Document Type: Article

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