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Social exclusion and optimal redistribution

Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021

We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed, in conjunction with optimal income taxation,...

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The ability gradient in bunching

Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020

We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...

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Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

Impullitti, Giammario; Licandro, Omar; Rendahl, Pontus - 2017

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation …. In addition to markups, selection and innovation provide additional channels through which the trade-induced effect on … channels; we find that innovation plays a small but non-negligible role, while the main component is equally split between the …

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Technology, market structure and the gains from trade

Impullitti, Giammario; Licandro, Omar; Rendahl, Pontus - 2021

We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …

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