The Appropriate Division of Regulatory Labor

dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-11T17:02:32Z
dc.date.available2024-12-11T17:02:32Z
dc.date.issued2024-10-22
dc.description.abstractShould national postal authorities or postal operators, experts in postal economics and policy, also become experts in estimating environmental costs and benefits? The alternative view is that there should be a “division of regulatory labor,” akin to the division of productive labor going back to Adam Smith. An environmental regulator can incorporate pollution and global warming costs across the economy, while postal authorities address postal policy goals taking the costs determined by environmental policy into account. A potential boundary between postal and environmental policy is pertinent also to national or transnational regulation of electric transmission and distribution grids. This issue has recently arisen in antitrust, as policymakers express greater sympathy for considerations beyond consumer benefit, including social equality and environmental sustainability. Employment and equity are arguably (and controversially) separable as well. However, there may be limits to the division of regulatory labor. Competition authorities in the USA have not been reluctant to expect other regulators in the USA to incorporate competitive effects in designing their regulations. Moreover, often sectoral regulators are expected to balance multiple policy considerations. One also needs to recognize that other regulations, such as climate-related carbon pricing, may not be in place.
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-65599-9_23
dc.format.extent17 pages
dc.genrejournal articles
dc.genrepostprints
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m27qhe-xiev
dc.identifier.citationBrennan, Timothy. “The Appropriate Division of Regulatory Labor.” In Service Challenges, Business Opportunities, and Regulatory Responses in the Postal Sector, edited by Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy Brennan, and Victor Glass, 353–66. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65599-9_23.
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65599-9_23
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/37080
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC School of Public Policy
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Economics Department
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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