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The Value of a Statistical Life and the Coefficient of Relative Risk Aversion

Kaplow, Louis - 2003

Individuals' risk preferences are estimated and employed in a variety of settings, notably including choices in …' coefficients of relative risk aversion (CRRA's) in excess of one, and often significantly higher. However, it can be shown that …) anomaly involving individuals' risk-taking behavior in different market settings …

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Incentives and Government Relief for Risk

Kaplow, Louis - 1989

. This paper explores the effect of such relief on incentives and the allocation of risk in a model with private insurance …

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Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action

Kaplow, Louis - 1989

A significant source of risk arises from uncertainty concerning future government policy. Government action - - tax … preexisting rules. The effects of government relief - - compensation, grandfathering, phase-ins - - on ex ante incentives and risk …

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Taxation and Risk Taking : A General Equilibrium Perspective

Kaplow, Louis - 1991

Taxation and risk taking are examined in a general equilibrium model that incorporates uncertain government revenue in … riskless component of investment returns or to an ex ante wealth tax -- both of which absorb no private risk and yield certain … for behavior (private and total risk taking) and welfare are immediate. Moreover, these results are independent of the …

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A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - 2000

Whether and how estates and gifts should be taxed has long been a controversial subject, and the approach to estate and gift taxation varies among developed countries. Arguments for and against various forms of transfer taxation have focused on concerns about the distribution of income and...

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Horizontal Equity : New Measures, Unclear Principles

Kaplow, Louis - 2000

Alan Auerbach and Kevin Hassett offer a new measure of horizontal equity (HE) that is designed to overcome deficiencies in prior indexes. There is, however, a fundamental problem that their effort shares with their predecessors' attempts: the underlying rationale for pursuing HE at the expense...

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Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

The public at large, many policymakers, and some economists hold views of social welfare that attach some importance to factors other than individuals' utilities. This note shows that any such non-individualistic notion of social welfare conflicts with the Pareto principle

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Transfer Motives and Tax Policy

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

This paper considers the optimal tax treatment of voluntary transfers to individuals in a" framework that integrates redistributive income taxation and estate and gift taxation. Under this" formulation, redistributive considerations become secondary. The optimal tax treatment of" transfers...

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Economic Analysis of Law

Kaplow, Louis - 1999

This is a survey of the field of economic analysis of law, focusing on the work of economists. The survey covers the three central areas of civil law liability for accidents (tort law), property law, and contracts as well as the litigation process and public enforcement of law

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Horizontal Equity : Measures in Search of a Principle

Kaplow, Louis - 1985

Horizontal equity -- the command that equals be treated equally -- has received increased attention, particularly in attempts to measure the desirability of tax reform proposals. This paper questions whether the normative foundations for horizontal equity justify the indexes and approaches that...

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