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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results …

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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2011

We study optimal tax and educational policies in a dynamic private information economy, in which ex-ante heterogeneous individuals make an educational investment early in their life and face a stochastic wage distribution. We characterize labor and education wedges in this setting analytically...

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Nonlinear Tax Incidence and Optimal Taxation in General Equilibrium

Sachs, Dominik - 2016

We study the incidence and the optimal design of nonlinear income taxes in a Mirrleesian economy with a continuum of endogenous wages. We characterize analytically the incidence of any tax reform by showing that one can mathematically formalize this problem as an integral equation. For a CES...

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