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The marginal cost of public funds : a brief guide
Bastani, Spencer - 2023
When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCPF) which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...
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The quantity theory of money : an assessment of its real linchpin prediction
Hillinger, Claude; Süßmuth, Bernd - 2010
find evidence of its linchpin prediction that is not limited to periods of high inflation. -- quantity theory of money …
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Pro-rich inflation and optimal income taxation
Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2020
This paper studies the implications of an increase in the price of necessities, which disproportionally hurts the poor, for optimal income taxation. Our analyses show that, when the government is utilitarian and disutility from labor supply is linear, the optimal net nominal tax schedule is...
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Households' response to the wealth effects of inflation
Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - 2023
We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision … experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are … concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while many households know about inflation eroding nominal assets, most are …
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
is constructed for the German monetary sector based on M3, GNP, an inflation rate, a long-term interest rate and a short …-term rate which represents the policy variable of the DBB. Moreover, import price inflation is included as an exogenous variable …
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Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between Black and Green Quotas
Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2009
Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
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The standard deviation of life-length, retirement incentives, and optimal pension design
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Nils Sören - 2010
In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change in the standard deviation of the length of life. In a first best framework, where a benevolent government exercises perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and...
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One-sided private provision of public goods with implicit Lindahl pricing
Meier, Volker - 2010
We consider a sequential game in which one player produces a public good and the other player can influence this decision by making an unconditional transfer. An efficient allocation requires the Lindahl property: the sum of the two (implicit) individual prices has to be equal to the resource...
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Adaptation, anticipation-bias and optimal income taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2012
Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
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International cooperation over green taxes : on the impossibility of achieving a probability-one gain
Aronsson, Thomas; Backlund, Kenneth; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf - 2001
This paper concerns international coordination of environmental taxation.The main contribution of the paper is to provide a frame-work for dynamiccost benefit analysis of environmental tax reforms in a global economy withtransboundary environmental problems. We show that the welfare effects...
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