costs and benefit of regulation in agriculture
Paper details
Students will be required to write a final paper on the economics of a prominent competition policy, and important regulatory policy, or industry restructuring issue or undertake an critical discussion of a specific regulatory decision (what was the failure it was to correct, was it effective, would a different policy tool been a better choice etc.)
Textbook
1. Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy and Practice
Robert Baldwin and Martin Cave
Oxford University Press
2. Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
Viscusi, Vernon and Harrington
MIT Press
3. The Economics of Regulation: Principles and Institutions (Volumes I and II)
Alfred E. Kahn
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
4. Changing the Rules: Canadian Regulatory Regimes and Institutions
Doern, Hill, Prince and Schultz
University of Toronto Press
5. The Role of Crown Corporations in the Canadian Economy: an analytical framework
Edward Iacobucci and Michal Trebilock
University of Calgary, School of Public Policy
SPP Research Papers, Volume 5 Issue 9 2012
www.policyschool.ca
6. The Theory of Economic Regulation
George J. Stigler
JSTOR: The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science
Vol. 2, No. 1 Spring 1971
www.jstor.org
7. Recent Canadian Policy Toward Industry Competition Policy, Industrial Policy and National Champions
Thomas W. Ross
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia
Working Paper 2008-01
January 9, 2008
www.csgb.ubc.ca/working_papers.html
8. Estimating the True Size of Government: Adjusting for Regulation
Philip Cross
MacDonald-Laurier Institute
May 2014
www.Macdonaldlaurier.ca