Discussion Paper
No. 2014-36 |
September 10, 2014
Indirect Taxation, Public Pricing and Price Cap Regulation: A Synthesis
(Published in Survey and Overview)
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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