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Public and private hospitals, congestion, and redistribution
CANTA, Chiara; LEROUX, Marie-Louise - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013
private one at a higher price. With pure in-kind redistribution, agents fail to internalize their impact on congestion, and … the demand for the public hospital is higher than optimal. We show that under full information, the optimal redistribution … private hospital price may be negative or positive depending on the relative importance of redistribution and efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695723
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Labor mobility and income tax competition
PIASER, Gwenaël - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2003
This paper provides a model of nonlinear income taxation in a context of international mobility. We consider two identical countries, in which each government chooses non-cooperatively redistributive taxes. It is shown that when skilled workers can move at low cost, the income taxation does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043713
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Optimal taxation theory and principles of fairness
Fleurbaey, Marc; Maniquet, François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2015
The achievements and limitations of the classical theory of optimal labor-income taxation based on social welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246287
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Signaling and indirect taxation
TRUYTS, Tom - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010
Commodities communicate. Consumers choose a consumption bundle both for its intrinsic characteristics and for what this bundle communicates about their qualities (or 'identity') to spectators. We investigate optimal indirect taxation when consumption choices are motivated by two sorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550223
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The effects of economic integration on the provision of mandatory education as a redistributive policy
DEL REY CANTELI, Elena - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998
The aim of this paper is to investigate the implications of increased student mobility on the level of education provided after opening the borders between two similar countries. As a preliminary result, it will be shown that some public provision of mandatory education can be welfare improving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005065345
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Should we subsidize longevity?
LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PESTIEAU, Pierre; PONTHIÈRE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
redistribution across both earnings and genetic dimensions. Whether longevity-enhancing spending should be subsidized or taxed is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042809
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Long term care insurance and family norms
CANTA, Chiara; PESTIEAU, Pierre - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012
Long term care (LTC) is mainly provided by the family and subsidiarily by the market and the government. To understand the role of these three institutions it is important to understand the motives and the working of family solidarity. In this paper we focus on the case when LTC is provided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695725
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A welfarist version of Harsanyi’s aggregation theorem
d’ASPREMONT, Claude; MONGIN, Philippe - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997
Welfare Functionals theory. The present paper aims at showing that appropriately formulated single-profile variants of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043317
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Indirect taxes for redistribution: should necessity goods be favored?
BOADWAY, Robin; PESTIEAU, Pierre - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2011
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commod- ity taxes are not needed if an optimal nonlinear income tax is imposed. Redistributive objectives can be achieved with the income tax alone even if goods differ considerably in their income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927671
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Endogenous differential mortality, non monitored effort and optimal non linear taxation
LEROUX, Marie-Louise - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
This paper studies the normative problem of redistribution among individuals who can influence their longevity through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008665