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Equality of Opportunity, Heterogeneity and Poverty

Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

explanation of intergenerational income correlation in Sweden. <p> Paper [II] focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The … purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of … from true state dependence, where the experience of poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on …

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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility

Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...

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Essays on Growth and Environment

Cialani, Catia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. <p> Paper [I] Following the 1987 report by The World Commission on Environment and Development, the genuine saving has come to play a key role in the context of sustainable development, and the World Bank regularly publishes numbers...</p>

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Heterogeneity or True State Dependence in Poverty - The tale told by twins

Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

This study focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons … why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of identical twins, this study takes advantage of the … poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on a four variate probit model, show the importance of …

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Optimal Income Taxation, Outsourcing and Policy Cooperation in a Dynamic Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

This paper concerns optimal income taxation in a two-country OLG economy, where each country is characterized by asymmetric information between the government and the private sector, and where one of the countries outsources part of its production to the other. In the country whose firms...

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Optimal Taxation and Environmental Policy in a Decentralized Economic Federation with Environmental and Labor Market Externalities

Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

This paper concerns optimal taxation and environmental policy in the presence of transboundary environmental damage and labour market distortions, where the latter gives rise to wage bargaining externalities between countries. I consider a decentralized economic federation where the federal...

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State-Variable Public Goods When Relative Consumption Matters: A Dynamic Optimal Taxation Approach

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

This paper concerns the optimal provision of a state-variable public good, where the global climate is the prime example. The analysis is based on a two-type optimal income tax model with overlapping generations, where people care about their relative consumption. We consider both...

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Optimal Tax Progression: Does it Matter if Wage Bargaining is Centralized or Decentralized?

Aronsson, Thomas; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

We study how the optimal use of labor income tax progression depends on whether the wage bargaining system is decentralized or centralized. Assuming a nonlinear labor income tax and an unrestricted profit tax, we show that a Utilitarian government is able to implement the first best resource...

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The Standard Deviation of Life-Length, Retirement Incentives, and Optimal Pension Design

Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change in the standard deviation of the length of life. In a first best framework, where a benevolent government exercises perfect control over the individuals’ labor supply and...

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Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both when differential commodity taxation is feasible and when it is not. It...

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