variations in linear budget constraints. This is quite surprising since most income tax systems are nonlinear, generating … that are correct for variations in a linear income tax. Such a procedure leads to incorrect results. The main purpose of … this paper is to show how to correctly calculate the marginal deadweight loss when the income tax is nonlinear. A second …

determination than in tax determination. Apart from some simulation studies, theoretical studies of optimal tax design typically … Atkinson-Stiglitz and Chamley-Judd results, this article raises the issue of tax-favored retirement savings, a topic where the …

This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive … model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find … differences in the magnitude of regional tax multipliers suggests that industry composition of output and sociodemographic …

disagrees on even the qualitative response of key macroeconomic variables to government spending and tax shocks. We provide new … diverging results as regards the effects of tax shocks, with the estimated effects ranging from non-distortionary to strongly …