Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155005 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 51.1999
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Multinational enterprises (MNEs) have started to populate also regulated sectors. Their linked international activities and credible threats to relocate are then new concerns for regulators. We study a multiprincipal model in which a privately informed MNE (the agent) produces for two countries and is regulated by the two national authorities (the principals). We show that standard theory in the economics of regulation must be reconsidered in a world with MNEs and novel results arise. We study MNE's incentives to allocate resources to lobby the two non-benevolent regulators and we analyse optimal ownership patterns as a substitute for co-operation in regulation between countries.
Subjects: 
Multinational enterprises
Regulation
Asymmetric information
Multiprincipal
Lobbying
JEL: 
L51
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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