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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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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork : Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting
Meier, Volker - 2008
Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768348
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The Welfare Loss from Differential Taxation of Sectors in Germany
Radulescu, Doina Maria - 2008
In the spirit of Harberger, we apply a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and estimate the excess burden stemming from the tax-induced distortion in the allocation of capital across the corporate and the non-corporate sectors in Germany. In doing so, we perform a counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769707
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VAT Notches
Liu, Li - 2015
taxable income to an indirect tax setting. We bring the theory to the data, using linked administrative VAT and corporation … tax records in the UK from 2004-2009. Consistently with the theory, voluntary registration is positively related to the … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021432
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The Efficiency Loss of Capital Income Taxation Under Imperfect Loss Offset Provisions
Ahsan, Syed M.; Tsigaris, Panagiotis - 2021
The importance of capital loss offset provisions in a world of risk is well documented in the tax literature. However, the potential deadweight losses owing to imperfect offset has not been fully explored. This paper develops a framework whereby that investigation can be carried out and utilizes...
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Marginal Deadweight Loss When the Income Tax is Nonlinear
Blomquist, Soren - 2010
Almost all theoretical work on how to calculate the marginal deadweight loss has been done for linear taxes and for variations in linear budget constraints. This is quite surprising since most income tax systems are nonlinear, generating nonlinear budget constraints. Instead of developing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143343
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Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as an Escape from the Bertrand Paradox
Foros, Øystein - 2007
In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing relatively close substitutes by implementing a price-dependent profit-sharing rule. The rule also ensures that the downstream firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777494
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Trade and Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium
Koska, Onur A. - 2011
This paper employs a general equilibrium model of imperfect competition and trade in which capital is used to establish firms and labor is used for production. We show that two different types of equilibria may exist, one with factor price equalization and one with different factor prices. When...
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Indirect Taxes for Redistribution : Should Necessity Goods Be Favored?
Boadway, Robin - 2011
Atkinson and Stiglitz show that with weakly separability, differential commodity taxes are unnecessary given an optimal nonlinear income tax. Deaton showed that with an optimal linear progressive income tax, commodity taxes are superfluous under weakly separable and linear Engel curves. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117597
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Does Indirect Tax Harmonization Deliver Pareto Improvements in the Presence of Global Public Goods?
Karakosta, Ourania - 2009
This paper identifies conditions under which, starting from any tax distorting equilibrium, destination- and origin-based indirect tax-harmonizing reforms are potentially Pareto improving in the presence of global public goods. The first condition (unrequited transfers between governments)...
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