Abstract

This paper provides a unified vision of a number of results that appeared in three separate streams of literature. The author emphasizes the strong parallelism between the results obtained in a number of papers that analyzed the relationships between price cap regulation, welfare maximization, welfare improvements, distributional preferences and poverty reduction and those originating from the well-established theories of optimal indirect taxation and tax reforms, as well as public pricing.

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Edilio Valentini (2014). Indirect Taxation, Public Pricing and Price Cap Regulation: A Synthesis. Economics Discussion Papers, No 2014-36, Kiel Institute for the World Economy. http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2014-36