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national income (or wealth) appropriated by the same income group. In turn, we develop the Fiscal Inequality Coefficient which …
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-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …
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This paper studies the design of sin taxes when firms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the efficiency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these effects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...
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We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear … circumstances where stochastic redistribution is socially dominated by the deterministic policy where after-tax income lotteries are …
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Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once we account for informal consumption. Using household expenditure surveys in 32 countries we proxy for informal consumption using the type of store where...
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I investigate numerically the following question: Given that individuals with different wages disagree over the optimal labour-income tax schedule, how would such disagreements be affected if society restricted itself to using linear tax schedules? I find that there would be (i) a decrease in...
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carbon emission reduction than redistribution (inequality reduction by transfers). However, those countries who contribute …This study investigates the relationship between distinct types of inequality and CO2 emissions using panel data on 156 … that pre-distribution (inequality reduction by structural changes and social protection) is better aligned with the goal of …
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helps to understand the high levels of inequality. The contemporary fiscal version of that assertion goes something like … “the rich are powerful and they dont like taxes, hence we have little taxation and little redistribution.” That is a good … taxation and non-negligible redistributive efforts. But in some of those cases such redistribution comes hand in hand with …
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