Business regulation
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Under an RPI-X price-cap formula, how is the maximum percentage price rise a regulated firm is allowed to charge each year calculated?
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Edexcel Economics B (9EB0) Theme 4 'Making markets work' (Paper 1), Unit T4-2 'Market power, regulation and market failure' — spec ref 4.2.2 (and 4.2.3). How the government and industry regulators respond to the market power and market failure covered in Lesson 2a: the Competition and Markets Aut…
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Lesson outline
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Hinge Check — What Does 'Cap' Mean Here?
- Why Regulate?
- Hinge Check — What Is Regulation Actually FOR?
- The CMA — the UK's Competition Watchdog
- Hinge Check — What Can the CMA Actually Do?
- Regulating Natural Monopolies
- How RPI−X Caps Prices AND Cuts Costs
- Hinge Check — Reading the RPI−X Diagram
- Other Regulatory Tools
- Guided Practice — Match the Tool to the Purpose
- For and Against Regulation
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