growth enhancing tax and expenditure reform. We quantitatively illustrate that this reform based strategy, by reaping … yet avoids increasing tax rates. With slow consolidation, marginal tax rates are reduced right from the beginning. …

We characterize the second-best allocation in a Mirrleesian optimal tax model where agents differ in multiple … dimensions and the planner can tax multiple goods non-linearly. We develop a new method that allows us to solve the partial … properties of the optimum. First, the optimal tax system is described by a multidimensional version of Diamond’s (1998) and Saez …

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in the …

expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …. However, the tax benefit system and discretionary policy responses to the crisis act as important income stabilizers, since …

-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the …

from approximately 0.7 in 1997 to under 0.3 in 2019. We further demonstrate how a simulation procedure based on the labor … the sociodemographic composition of the population, changes in preferences and labor market options, wage changes, and tax …

the development in effective marginal tax rates and participation tax rates, and estimates, using the difference …-in-differences method, the impact of tax incentives on employment rates of elderly workers. After this background, we ponder possibilities … for reforming the Swedish tax system to improve its labour market impacts. We suggest better targeting the earned income …

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an optimal tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be … reviews the political economics literature on tax systems and reforms to see whether political mechanisms allow us to better … understand why tax systems look the way they look. Finally, we exploit a database of reforms in labour taxation in the European …

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … income tax schedule. To shed light on this controversy, we structurally estimate a model that combines public utility pricing … 2013, including detailed energy consumption and household income and tax payment characteristics. While the theoretical …