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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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Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom
Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 24-33
We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the … knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and … results in terms of preservation of poverty orderings. We point out the main analogies and differences between inequality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711961
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When Kolm Meets Mirrless: ELIE
Trannoy, Alain; Simula, Laurent - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008
This article discusses the properties of Kolm’s ELIE proposal in the Context of optimal income taxation “à la Mirrlees”. It first shows that ELIE gives rise to non-standard type-dependent budget sets, which has important implications in terms of a minimum labour requirement. Second, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969040
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An Exploration of Incentive-Compatible ELIE
Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2008
Simula and Trannoy (2007) have shown that ELIE is confronted with implementation issues when the policymaker cannot observe the time worked by every individual. This paper tries to fix this problem. To this aim, it characterizes the second-best allocations which are the closest to ELIE (i) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969045
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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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Tel père, tel fils : l’influence de l'origine sociale et familiale sur la santé des descendants en Europe
Trannoy, Alain; Tubeuf, Sandy; Jusot, Florence - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
This article analyses unequal opportunities for health related to original class and family background in Europe. The literature has recently highlighted the influence of original class background on health in adulthood and the existence of transmission between the generations. The data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707480
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Origine sociale et état de santé des parents : Quelle influence sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte ?
Devaux, Marion; Jusot, Florence; Rochaix, Lise; … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2007
Parmi les facteurs explicatifs proposés pour expliquer les inégalités sociales de santé, la littérature épidémiologique a récemment mis en avant l’influence du milieu social d’origine sur l’état de santé à l’âge adulte, cette influence résultant à la fois d’un effet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011072128
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
Lehmann, Etienne; Simula, Laurent; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2013
We investigate how the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule is modified when taxpayers can evade taxation by emigrating. We consider two symmetric countries with Maximin governments. Workers choose their labor supply along the intensive margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877657
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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...
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