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Habit formation and the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods

Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017

This paper examines the implications of habit formation in private and public consumption for the Pareto-efficient provision of public goods, based on a two-period model with nonlinear taxation. If the public good supply is time-invariant, the presence of habit formation generally alters the...

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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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Adaptation, Taxation, and Public Goods

Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

This paper shows how the first-best and second-best rules for optimal public good provision depend on the adaptation to private and public consumption. Adaptation in private consumption typically leads to over-provision relative to the Samuelson condition, while adaptation in public consumption...

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

Aronsson, Thomas; Micheletto, Luca; Sjögren, Tomas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

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When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012

This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. Furthermore, we compare these policy rules with those that follow from...

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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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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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