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Should we subsidize longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2009
function, and on how the government weights the welfare of heterogeneous agents. All in all, it might be desirable to tax …
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Indirect taxes for redistribution: Should necessity goods be favored?
Boadway, Robin; Pestieau, Pierre - 2011
Atkinson and Stiglitz show that with weakly separability, differential commodity taxes are unnecessary given an optimal nonlinear income tax. Deaton showed that with an optimal linear progressive income tax, commodity taxes are superfluous under weakly separable and linear Engel curves. Using...
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