How can price ceilings be used to regulate a natural monopoly?

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Reyna A.
Feb 24, 2016

Price ceilings can be used to regulate a natural monopoly by ensuring that the sellers or producers of a certain product will not charge too high for the said product.

Explanation:

A price ceiling is a government-imposed price control or limit on how high a price is charged for a product. The government intended price ceilings to protect the rights of consumers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_ceiling for the definition.

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