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We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...
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We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We consider a symmetric cross-ownership structure in which a subset of k firms engage in cross-shareholding and each firm has an equal silent financial interest in the other firms,...
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How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies suggest large stability gains from eliminating the debt bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio...
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. Differences are also found in the results by asset class. The implications of these findings for private equity management, profit …
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the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and …
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We develop and estimate a model of jointly optimal income taxes for different types of income. Compared to standard … optimal tax formulas, optimal schedular income tax rates additionally depend on cross-elasticities between tax bases capturing … fiscal externalities. We discuss two applications: the taxation of different income sources such as labor or capital income …
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that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower … proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …
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uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to … capital income risk, we solve for the optimal consumption-saving choices and show that the expected welfare is increasing with … households would pay more attention to capital income risk if they have (i) lower initial wealth endowment, (ii) lower marginal …
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This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …
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This paper studies the market and welfare effects of income heterogeneity in monopolistically competitive product … sensitive to price change compared to poorer ones’, a mean-preserving contraction of income distribution entices firms to charge … poorer individuals and, in specific circumstances, on the whole population. In an open economy with free trade, lower income …
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