Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/233275 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion paper No. 59
Publisher: 
Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE), Turku
Abstract: 
I analyse the welfare impact of a mixed market with a public or private firm with some degree of altruism, in the presence of an agency problem. Contrary to some earlier findings, the total surplus turns out to be increasing in the degree of altruism. This impact is stronger than if there is no agency problem, despite more stringent conditions for the market to remain mixed. The altruistic firm is more cost-efficient, and viable if the market can remain mixed. A competition policy that encourages entry may increase welfare, but its scope is reduced by higher altruism.
Subjects: 
non-profit maximising firms
public firms
mixed oligopoly
competition policy
JEL: 
L32
L33
L44
H42
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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