Social preferences and price cap regulation

Journal of Public Economic Theory

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-114

  Iozzi, Alberto ^a   Poritz, Jonathan A ^b   Valentini, Edilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

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EID: 6944247900     PISSN: 10973923     EISSN: 14679779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9779.00090     Document Type: Article

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