Optimal Intervention in the Presence of "Categorical Equity" Objectives
This paper derives rules for optimal intervention under "categorical equity" principles in a decentralized economy. The analysis suggests that in a "first best" world, a perfectly discriminatory system of excise taxes, the tax treatment of "categorical equity" goods should include a subsidy component of equal size for all agents in the economy, and indirect corrective measures might be desirable. Optimal tax formulae exhibit "separability" between vertical equity, externalities, and categorical equity.
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1988
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Authors: | Gonzalez-Paramo, Jose M ; Tang, De-Piao |
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Public Finance = Finances publiques. - Vol. 43.1988, 1, p. 79-95
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