low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income redistribution and some targeted transfers … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

This paper characterizes the welfare gains from redistributive taxation and social insurance in an environment where …

findings are federal income distribution, little local redistribution, and local preference for property taxation over income … tax for redistribution, and the latter choosing a local income tax, property tax, lump-sum tax or subsidy, and a local … taxation to fund local public goods …

the concurrent decline in welfare-state redistribution. This paper develops a model, which can provide an explanation for …-economy balance and the redistributive policies. The paper highlights the differences in the political-economy induced redistribution …

class of utility functions, all redistribution should be carried out through labor income taxation, rather than differential …An influential result in modern optimal tax theory, the Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) theorem, holds that for a broad … redistribution in this setting. In fact, the optimal commodity taxes essentially follow the classic “many person Ramsey rule …

redistribution in democratic societies. An infinite-horizon theoretical model is developed, and the properties of the equilibrium tax … experiment is conducted to test the main comparative static predictions of the theory, and the results are generally supportive …