, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we … conservation as well as income redistribution …

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … desirability of redistribution through wage compression …

conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …

We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal …, in conjunction with optimal income taxation, contributes to redistribution and reduced long-term unemployment. The second … varies with the government’s preferences for redistribution and the characteristics of those risking long-term unemployment …

capture serves as a redistribution tool when direct lump-sum transfers across regions are unfeasible. …