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Optimal nonlinear income taxation with productive government expenditure

Lai, Ching-Chong; Liao, Chih-Hsing - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 22 (2012) 1, pp. 66-77

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with a production externality and nonlinear income taxation, and uses it to examine how the fiscal authority devises its nonlinear tax structure from the viewpoint of welfare maximization. It is found that, in the Barro (1990) model, Pareto...

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A Positive Theory of Income Taxation

Carbonell-Nicolau, Oriol - In: Contributions to Theoretical Economics 9 (2009) 1, pp. 1553-1553

We explore the consequences of electoral competition for nonlinear income taxation. Our model is a dynamic version of the standard two-party electoral competition model adapted to nonlinear income taxation. The theory has a number of desirable features. First, equilibria always exist, even...

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The Objections against Workfare Revised

Lohse, Tim - In: Review of Economics 65 (2014) 1, pp. 95-118

Opponents of work obligations in return for transfer payments argue that workfare can crowd out private sector work …, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes these … objections against workfare in a discrete optimal income tax model. Workfare productivity emerges to be the crucial determinant …

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Carbon pricing design: Effectiveness, efficiency and feasibility : An investment perspective

Flues, Florens - 2020

Carbon pricing helps countries steer their economies towards and along a carbon-neutral growth path. This paper considers how the design of carbon pricing instruments affects their effectiveness, efficiency and feasibility. Design choices matter both for taxes and Emissions Trading Systems...

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Assessment of the air pollution tax and emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic

Juřík, Richard - 2021

This paper assesses the design of the air pollution tax in conjunction with a stringency analysis of the emission concentration limits in the Czech Republic. The analysis draws upon a detailed database containing environmental reporting by industrial stationary sources. The assessment of the...

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Réduire la dette publique française : Les options de l'assainissement budgétaire

Égert, Balázs - 2011

France has a track record of persistent general government deficits, partly reflecting pro-cyclical fiscal policies in upswings. This has resulted in a quadrupling of its public debt-to-GDP ratio since the 1970s to above 80% of GDP. Reducing public debt is crucial because a high level of public...

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The use of revenues from carbon pricing

Marten, Melanie; Van Dender, Kurt - 2019

The paper collects comprehensive and detailed data on what 40 OECD and G20 economies do with the revenues from carbon taxes, emissions trading systems, and excise taxes on energy use. It notes that constraints – which can take the form of political commitments or legal earmarks – on revenue...

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Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carraro, Carlo; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper summarizes research presented at the FEEM-NBER Conference on the Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy, held in Milan Italy in June 1999.

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Environmental Taxation and the "Double Dividend:" A Reader's Guide

Goulder, Lawrence H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

In recent years there has been great interest in the possibility of substituting environmentally motivated or 'green' taxes for ordinary income taxes. Some have suggested that such revenue-neutral reforms might offer a 'double dividend:' not only (1) improve the environment but also (2) reduce...

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Energy Taxes: Traditional Efficiency Effects and Environmental Implications

Goulder, Lawrence H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1993

This paper examines 'traditional' (non-environmental) efficiency consequences and environmental effects of two energy tax policies: a tax on fossil and synthetic fuels based on Btu (or energy) content and a tax on consumer purchases of gasoline. It uses a model that uniquely combines attention...

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