redistribution results in more post-tax inequality. In general, optimal taxation will either imply that the redistribution paradox is …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

voting, where agents vote over income redistribution. The key feature of the theory is that the future constituency of … redistributive policies depends positively on the current level of redistribution, since this affects both private investments and …

redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main …

in the population who interacts with a (richer) agenda setter in Congress in setting redistribution. While the setter … managed to cap redistribution in the pre-war period, the War itself pushed up the status-quo tax burden, raising the … bargaining power of the median voter as defense spending receded. This raised the equilibrium level of redistribution. The higher …

create a “simulated tax redistribution index”, which captures the mechanical impact of the changes in tax policy on the gini … coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects …