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Indirect taxation, public pricing and price cap regulation: A synthesis

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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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  • Valentini, Edilio, 2015. "Indirect taxation, public pricing and price cap regulation: A synthesis," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), vol. 9, pages 1-39.
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    Price cap regulation; indirect taxation; public pricing;

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    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy

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