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Taxation and Savings - a Neoclassical Perspective

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021

This paper discusses recent neoclassical analyses of taxation and savings.Contrary to the popular view that fiscal … policy has highly ambiguous impacts on savings, neoclassical models admit a host of policies with clear and potentially quite … quantitative affect on savings.The essential elements of these policies involve inter- and intragenerational redistribution …

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Making Bequests Without Spoiling Children : Bequests as an Implicit Optimal Tax Structure and the Possibility that Altruistic Bequests are Not Equaliz

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Razin, Assaf - 2021

This paper examines the bequest\gift behavior of altruistic parents who do not know their children's abilities and cannot observe their children's work effort. Parents are likely to respond to this information problem by making larger bequests to higher earning children and by using their...

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Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2019

Carbon taxation has been studied primarily in social planner or infinitely lived agent models, which trade off the welfare of future and current generations. Such frameworks obscure the potential for carbon taxation to produce a generational win-win. This paper develops a large-scale, dynamic...

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