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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted at Income Redistribution?
Jacobs, Bas - 2017
This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949567
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Autonomous, Connected, Electric Shared vehicles (ACES) and public finance: an explorative analysis
Adler, Martin W; Peer, Stefanie; Sinozic, Tanja - 2019
This paper discusses the implications of autonomous-connected-electric-shared vehicles (ACES) for public finance, which have so far been widely ignored. In OECD countries, 5-12% of federal and up to 30% of local tax revenue are currently from fuel and vehicle taxation. The diffusion of ACES will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114758
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Born that way: Beliefs about genetics' importance and redistribution preferences
Pogliano, Andrea - 2024
Meritocratic fairness justifies inequality when it stems from performance. Yet performance is influenced by one …'s genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … generating performance inequality. In an incentivized online experiment, impartial spectators can redistribute the earnings that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547697
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The Political Economy of Commitment to Policies
Delfgaauw, Josse; Swank, Otto H. - 2023
IPCC (2022) documents a looming gap between climate goals and implemented policies and points to a lack of political commitment. We study policymakers' incentives to commit. A policymaker decides on a policy to encourage citizens to make investments and determines the degree of flexibility to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469588
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Congestion Pricing in Urban Polycentric Networks with Distorted Labor Markets: A Spatial General Equilibrium Model for the Area Randstad
Tikoudis, Ioannis - 2015
The paper presents a polycentric general equilibrium model with congestion externalities and distortionary labor taxation calibrated to fit the key empirical regularities of the regional economy and transport system of Randstad conglomeration. In line with more stylized models, marginal external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403546
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Optimal Taxation of Human Capital and Credit Constraints
Jacobs, Bas - 2002
We study optimal linear income taxation in a model with heterogeneous agents where earnings potentials are endogenously determined through human capital accumulation. Agents differ in initial conditions and ability to learn. Capital market imperfections prevent poor agents to invest optimally in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324813
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An Economic Analysis of Mixing Wastes
Aalbers, Rob F.T.; Vollebergh, Herman R.J. - 2005
Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325190
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Optimal Pricing of Flights and Passengers at Congested Airports: The Efficiency of Atomistic Charges
Silva, Hugo E.; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2011
This paper investigates optimal airport pricing when airlines provide imperfect substitutes products, and make decisions on capacity, scheduling and pricing. We show that the first-best toll per flight may be higher than the simple market-shares formulae that were recently derived for Cournot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326295
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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted At Income Redistribution?
Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Rick (F.) - 2017
This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819463
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Optimal Income Taxation in Unionized Labor Markets
Hummel, Albert Jan; Jacobs, Bas - 2018
unions can be desirable for income redistribution. Unions bargain with firms over wages in each sector and firms unilaterally … determine employment. Unions raise the efficiency costs of income redistribution, because unemployment benefits and income taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932335