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On the Legitimacy of Coercion for the Financing of Public Goods
Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2009
The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979415
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Optimal income taxation and public goods provision in a large economy with aggregate uncertainty
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009
priori unknown. The analysis is based on a mechanism design approach that imposes a requirement of robustness with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266057
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All or Nothing : State Capacity and Optimal Public Goods Provision
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2018
.e. resources to pay for all the public goods in the bundle. The analysis focuses on the all-or-nothing-mechanism: Expand provision … all-outcome converges to one as the capacity becomes unbounded. We also provide conditions under which the all-or-nothing-mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908660
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All or Nothing: State Capacity and Optimal Public Goods Provision
Bierbrauer, Felix; Winkelmann, Justus - 2018
.e. resources to pay for all the public goods in the bundle. The analysis focuses on the all-or-nothing-mechanism: Expand provision … all-outcome converges to one as the capacity becomes unbounded. We also provide conditions under which the all-or-nothing-mechanism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931988
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Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2014
We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398540
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Efficiency, Welfare, and Political Competition
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - CESifo - 2014
We study political competition in an environment in which voters have private information about their preferences. Our framework covers models of income taxation, public-goods provision or publicly provided private goods. Politicians are vote-share-maximizers. They can propose any policy that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779412
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The Pareto-Frontier in a Simple Mirrleesian Model of Income Taxation
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2013
We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323018
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The Pareto-Frontier in a Simple Mirrleesian Model of Income Taxation
Bierbrauer, Felix; Boyer, Pierre C. - CESifo - 2013
We characterize the Pareto-frontier in a simple Mirrleesian model of income taxation. We show how the second-best frontier which incorporates incentive constraints due to private information on productive abilities relates to the first-best frontier which takes only resource constraints into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877911
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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods Provision in a Large Economy with Aggregate Uncertainty
Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2009
priori unknown. The analysis is based on a mechanism design approach that imposes a requirement of robustness with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013044
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Robust Mechanism Design and Social Preferences
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2014
We study a classic mechanism design problem: How to organize trade between two privately informed parties. We … characterize an optimal mechanism under selfish preferences and present experimental evidence that, under such a mechanism, a non … and introduce the notion of a social-preference-robust mechanism. We characterize an optimal mechanism in this class and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055380