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Endogenous Longevity and Optimal Tax Progressivity
Heer, Burkhard; Rohrbacher, Stefan - 2021
We study the impact of endogenous longevity on optimal tax progressivity and inequality in an overlapping generations model with skill heterogeneity. Higher tax progressivity decreases both the longevity gap and net income inequality, but at the expense of lower average lifetime and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314957
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Efficient subsidization of human capital accumulation with overlapping generations and endogenous growth
Richter, Wolfram F.; Braun, Christoph - 2010
This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. Government expenditures have to be financed by linear instruments so that growth equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270495
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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy
Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2011
The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275050
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Optimal income taxation : outsourcing and policy cooperation in a dynamic economy
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009
This paper concerns optimal income taxation in a two-country OLG economy, where each country is characterized by asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and where one of the countries outsources part of its production to the other. In the country whose firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274380
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The welfare gains of age related optimal income taxation
Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2010
Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274858
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Indebted Demand
Mian, Atif R. - 2020
We propose a theory of indebted demand, capturing the idea that large debt burdens by households and governments lower … aggregate demand, and thus natural interest rates. At the core of the theory is the simple yet under-appreciated observation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836950
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Reasons for the Demise of Interest : Savings Glut and Secular Stagnation or Central Bank Policy?
Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is linked to slowing population growth and a declining marginal …, from the perspective of Austrian business cycle theory, interest rates were step by step decreased by central banks to … nihilo and the need of time to produce capital invalidates the IS identity assumed in the Keynesian theory to hold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858697
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Coordinated tax-tariff reforms, informality, and welfare distribution
Ligthart, Jenny E.; van der Meijden, Gerard C. - 2010
The paper studies the revenue, efficiency, and distributional implications of a simple strategy of offsetting tariff reductions with increases in destination-based consumption taxes so as to leave consumer prices unchanged. We employ a dynamic micro-founded macroeconomic model of a small open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275699
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Pareto-improving bequest taxation
Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261311
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During Extreme Events
Pellegrino, Giovanni - 2020
How damaging are uncertainty shocks during extreme events such as the great recession and the Covid-19 outbreak? Can monetary policy limit output losses in such situations? We use a nonlinear VAR framework to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822498