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Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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The Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation

Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000

This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

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The Trade-off between Intra- and Intergenerational Equity in Climate Policy

Kverndokk, Snorre; Nævdal, Eric; Nøstbakken, Linda - CESifo - 2013

This paper focuses on two equity dimensions of climate policy, intra- and intergenerational, and analyzes the implications of equity preferences on climate policy, and on the production and consumption patterns in rich and poor countries. We develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each...

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Combining Rights and Welfarism: A New Approach to Intertemporal Evaluation of Social Alternatives

Long, Ngo Van; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2012

We propose a new criterion which reflects both the concern for welfare (utility) and the concern for rights in the evaluation of economic development paths. The concern for rights is captured by a pre-ordering over combinations of thresholds (floors or ceilings on various quantitative...

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Climate Policy under Sustainable Discounted Utilitarianism

Dietz, Simon; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2011

Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...

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A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams

Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2011

Various extensions of the leximin order to the infinite dimensional setting have been suggested. They relax completeness and strong anonymity. Instead, by removing sensitivity to generations at infinite rank this paper defines a complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite...

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Trading Off Generations: Infinitely Lived Agent Versus OLG

Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - CESifo - 2012

The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs in climate change predominantly in terms of the Ramsey equation relying on the infinitely lived agent model. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate our results to the infinitely lived agent...

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Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth

Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - CESifo - 2009

Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...

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Justifying Social Discounting: The Rank-Discounted Utilitarian Approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2010

The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...

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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...

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