In the field of the economics’ regulation researchers so far have built the conceptual framework showing how the deadweight loss of market failures decrease and costs of the government intervention in-crease with the increased level of the government intervention. In order to quantify relationships between the level of intervention, intervention costs and the deadweight loss with econometric models it is im-portant to understand how to apply coordinates for the data points to be included in the modelling. The main goal of the research presented in this paper is to find the unit measure for the asis of the independentvariable, i.e. to shape the categorical scale corresponding to the level of intervention.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2020.591