In the early eighties Chile completely reformed its electricity sector, introducing a regulatory framework that became extremely influential in the rest of the world. In 1998 and 1999, however, when the La Niña phenomenon brought one of the worst droughts on record, the price system collapsed. Random outages and three-hour long rotatingelectricity cuts occurred.This paper
This paper analyzes the optimal tax policy within an endoge-nous growth model with productive government spending. We consider a one-factor (human capital) one-good economy, with the latter serving both as a final and an intermediate good. The government levies taxes in order to finance the provision of the intermediate good. Within this framework we show