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Six Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy

Fullerton, Don - 2011

While prior literature has identified various effects of environmental policy, this note uses the example of a proposed carbon permit system to illustrate and discuss six different types of distributional effects: (1) higher prices of carbon-intensive products, (2) changes in relative returns to...

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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...

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From Optimal Tax Theory to Applied Tax Policy

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper aims to provide a perspective on the ideal tax system using insights from optimal-tax theory supplemented …

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Second-Best Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital and Borrowing Constraints

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

We formulate a two-period life-cycle model of saving, labor supply, and human capital investments when individuals differ in ability and initial wealth. Borrowing constraints prevent individuals to optimally smooth consumption over the life-cycle and to optimally invest in human capital. We show...

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Optimal Linear Commodity Taxation Under Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation

Jacobs, Bas - 2013

This paper analyzes optimal linear commodity taxes joint with non-linear income taxes. We provide optimal tax rules based on empirically observable elasticities. We demonstrate that commodities should be taxed/subsidized if doing so boosts labor supply. The critical role of commodity taxation is...

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Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?

Elliott, Joshua - 2013

One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions (“leakage”). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be...

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Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy

Baylis, Kathy - 2013

We extend the model of Fullerton, Karney, and Baylis (2012 working paper) to explore cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme....

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An Exponential Class of Dynamic Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

Al-Sadoon, Majid - 2013

This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be arbitrarily correlated with covariates. The model is of the exponential type. We derive moment conditions that enable us to eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same...

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Double-Question Survey Measures for the Analysis of Financial Bubbles and Crashes

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2017

belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets …-valued), and another regarding his/her expectations of the future price of that asset. Responses to these two questions are then … between the agents expectations of price changes and their asset valuation. Double question surveys on equity, gold and house …

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Public Finance in a Nutshell : A Cobb Douglas Teaching Tool for General Equilibrium Tax Incidence and Excess Burden

Fullerton, Don - 2017

To help first- or second-year graduate students in economics apply their theoretical training, this paper shows how to solve a simple and intuitive computable general equilibrium (CGE) model using a calculator. Because this simplified Harberger model uses Cobb Douglas functional forms for...

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