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Natural disasters and demand for redistribution : lessons from an earthquake

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2018

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random "bad luck" can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

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Redistribution, horizontal inequity, and reranking : direct taxation in the UK, 1977-2020

Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2023

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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income

Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023

Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...

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Optimal sin taxation and market power

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2021

This paper studies the design of sin taxes when ﬁrms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the eﬃciency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these eﬀects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...

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Do countries really deviate from the optimal tax system?

Sepúlveda, Cristián - 2020

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Disagreements in society over linear vs. over nonlinear labour-income tax schedules

Ivanov, Asen - 2024

I investigate numerically the following question: Given that individuals with different wages disagree over the optimal labour-income tax schedule, how would such disagreements be affected if society restricted itself to using linear tax schedules? I find that there would be (i) a decrease in...

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Is there a "new consensus" on inequality?

Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2023

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Optimal random taxation and redistribution

Gauthier, Stéphane; Laroque, Guy - 2022

We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear … circumstances where stochastic redistribution is socially dominated by the deterministic policy where after-tax income lotteries are …

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Relative price variability, repeat sales and the welfare cost of inflation

Fershtman, Chaim; Fishman, Arthur; Simhon, Avi - 1996

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The social cost of labor and project evaluation : a general approach

Sah, Raaj Kumar - In: Journal of public economics 28 (1985) 2, pp. 135-163

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