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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818892
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
Chau, Nancy; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015498
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Poverty and Welfare Measurement on the Basis of Prospect Theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607471
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Middlemen, Non-Profits and Poverty
Chau, Nancy H; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a 'fair-trade' premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528529
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Taxation and Poverty
Chambers, Christopher P.; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2015
head tax), and exogenous poverty-line rules (such as the leveling tax, and some of its possible compromises with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211436
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Tax policy and present-biased preferences: Paternalism under international capital mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 298-316
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048227
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Poverty and Well-being in Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Overview of Data, Outcomes and Policy
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2005
This is an overview of poverty and well-being in the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa. It is an introduction … households and individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. Second, while the outcomes on unemployment, poverty and inequality are … for rapid and sustained economic growth, without which poverty and well-being cannot be addressed in the long run, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395714
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Adaptation, Anticipation-Bias and Optimal Income Taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2012
Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877881
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Social Identity, Education and Tax Policy
Aronsson, Thomas; Heidrich, Stefanie; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This paper analyzes the implications of social identity and self-categorization in the context of optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887093
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Positional Preferences for Housing: Income Taxation as a Second-Best Policy?
Aronsson, Thomas; Mannberg, Andrea - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This paper analyzes whether marginal taxation of labor and capital income might be useful second best instruments for internalizing the externalities caused by conspicuous housing consumption, when the government is unable to implement a first best corrective tax on housing wealth. The rationale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887095