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Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Boerma, Job; Tsyvinski, Aleh; Zimin, Alexander P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize optimal policies in a multidimensional nonlinear taxation model with bunching. We develop an …
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Book-Value Wealth Taxation, Capital Income Taxation, and Innovation
Guvenen, Fatih; Kambourov, Gueorgui; Kuruşçu, Burhanettin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
taxation be structured to improve productivity, incentivize innovation, and ultimately increase welfare? We study these …
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The Optimal Taxation of Couples
Golosov, Michail Ju.; Krasikov, Ilia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We consider optimal joint nonlinear earnings taxation of couples. We use multi-dimensional mechanism design techniques …
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Mild Government Failure
Wei, Shang-jin; Xu, Jianhuan; Yin, Ge; Zhang, Xiaobo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A relatively mild form of government failure - for example, bureaucrats can count but do not differentiate quality - can significantly affect the efficacy of industrial policy. We investigate this idea in the context of China's largest pro-innovation industrial policy using a structural model....
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Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation : A Unifying Model
Craig, Ashley C.; Slemrod, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We provide a unified analysis of taxation and taxpayer education when individuals have an incomplete understanding of a …
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Inefficient Automation
Beraja, Martin; Zorzi, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How should the government respond to automation? We study this question in a heterogeneous agent model that takes worker displacement seriously. We recognize that displaced workers face two frictions in practice: reallocation is slow and borrowing is limited. We first show that these frictions...
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Optimal Income Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical … savings, savings policies, and labor supply; optimal income transfers; the relationship between optimal income taxation and … nonwelfarist objectives, welfare weights, heterogeneous preferences, and taxation of the family …
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The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power : Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives
Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case may suggest that it is irrelevant for aggregate welfare whether output is restricted via corrective taxes or limiting competition. However, when products are differentiated...
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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...
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Regulating Transformative Technologies
Acemoglu, Daron; Lensman, Todd - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Transformative technologies like generative artificial intelligence promise to accelerate productivity growth across many sectors, but they also present new risks from potential misuse. We develop a multi-sector technology adoption model to study the optimal regulation of transformative...
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