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Public Goods and Optimal Paternalism under Present-Biased Preferences

Aronsson, Thomas; Granlund, David - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

This paper deals with the optimal provision of a state-variable public good in a two-type model, when the consumers have present-biased preferences due to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. The results show that the preference for immediate gratification facing the (mimicking) high-ability type...

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Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each individual may compare his/her own current consumption with his/her own...

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When the Joneses’ Consumption Hurts: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper considers a two-type, self-selection, overlapping generations model with nonlinear labor income and capital income taxation and public good provision, when people care about their relative consumption compared to others. In each case, the standard optimality expressions are modified...

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Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

Previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure comparisons. This paper considers a two-type optimal nonlinear income tax model where people care both about their relative consumption and their relative leisure. Increased consumption...

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Welfare Measurement and Public Goods in a Second Best Economy

Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

This chapter concerns welfare measurement in economies, where the government raises revenue by means of distortionary …

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Public Goods, Unemployment and Policy Coordination

Aronsson, Thomas; Wehke, Sven - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

characterize the tax and expenditure policies, if decided upon at the national level, and analyze the welfare effects of policy … welfare if it reduces the net interest rate and the wage rate, and that the relative overprovision of the public input good …

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On the Provision of Public Goods in an Economy with Union Wage Setting and Distortionary Taxation

Aronsson, Thomas; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2002

and hours of work per employee influences the welfare effect of an increase in the provision of the public good. This … tradeoff means that the welfare gain of an increase in the hours of work, which is associated with the preexisting labor income … tax, will be counteracted by a welfare cost in terms of lost employment. We also show how the welfare effect of an …

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Optimal Taxation and Provision of Public Goods in a Unionized Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

This paper concerns optimal factor income taxation and provision of a public good in a small open economy, which is characterized by union wage setting. The analysis is based on a general equilibrium model, where the hours of work are endogenous, and the tax instruments are linear taxes on labor...

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Social Accounting and the Public Sector

Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

welfare equivalence of the comprehensive net national product in two main directions, both of which refer to the public sector …. One is by considering welfare measurement problems associated with redistributive policy and public good provision, when …

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Public Goods in a Voluntary Federal Union: Implications of a Participation Constraint

Aronsson, Thomas; Micheletto, Luca; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012

This paper re-examines the question of whether federal ex-post redistribution in terms of public funds leads to under-provision of public goods by adding the assumption that the member states are free to leave the economic federation. We show that federal ex-post redistribution no longer...

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