公共服务的覆盖面管制:价格与质量的社会权衡

Coverage Regulation of Public Service:Social Tradeoffs between Price and Quality

文章讨论了同质单一公共服务覆盖面的管制问题。不同消费者存在异质的偏好,这种差异会影响公共服务的管制方式和目标,此时管制不仅是协调消费者剩余和经营者利润,而且还涉及到服务价格和质量的权衡。本文分析了公共服务最优覆盖面的决定因素,并考察了垄断和不同管制方式对公共服务覆盖面的影响。

Due to differential preferences among consumers,the regulation of public service needs to coordinate not only the interests between consumers and producer,but also that among different types of consumers.This paper discusses the determination of public service coverage as a result of social tradeoff between price and quality of public service in different settings as well as its welfare effects on different type of consumers.