usually taken as an argument against the necessity of government intervention through Pigouvian taxation in order to correct … be prevented from always trying to exploit all gains from trade, may in fact be solved by taxation. Thus, in our … framework Coasean bargaining is not a substitute for Pigouvian taxation; instead it is the very reason for government …

publicly provided private good. Asymmetric capital taxation arises at equilibrium leading to a distortion on the international …

Taxation is only sustainable if the general public complies with it. This observation is uncontroversial with tax … with taxation, obtaining predictions that in some cases point to a re-interpretation of the theoretical constructions of …

, evaluating redistributive equilibria from an allocative point of view. It studies the problem of optimal redistributive taxation … redistribution results in more post-tax inequality. In general, optimal taxation will either imply that the redistribution paradox is …