A oferta privada de serviços públicos e a determinação de preços com objetivos sociais

Abstract

This article derives price schedules for public utilities when these enterprises are private owned. In Section 2 we assume that these firms set their tariffs with no regulatory constraints. In Sections 3 to 5 the assumption is that these firms are regulated: in Section 3 they are allowed to maximize their profits under a constraint of a minimum Level of social welfare; in Section 4, the tariffs are derived under a regulated rate of return; and in Section 5, the price-cap type of regulation used in the United Kingdom is used to regulate the level of tariffs they are allowed to charge. The main objective behind all these derivations is to examine the distributional impact of these regulations.