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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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POSITIONAL PREFERENCES IN TIME AND SPACE: IMPLICATIONS FOR OPTIMAL INCOME TAXATION

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

This paper concerns optimal nonlinear taxation in an OLG model with two ability-types, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people’s current consumption, (ii) own past consumption, and (iii) other people’s past consumption. We show that intertemporal...

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POSITIONAL CONCERNS IN AN OLG MODEL: OPTIMAL LABOR AND CAPITAL INCOME TAXATION

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper concerns optimal income taxation under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption compared to others. The appearance of positional concerns affects the policy choices via two channels: (i) the size of the...

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A Note on Environmental Policy Reform, Distortionary Taxation and Imperfect Competition

Aronsson, Thomas; Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2002

This paper concerns the welfare effects of public abatement projects, and concentrates on the influence of … resource use, abatement policies give rise to welfare effects via the tax system as well as via changes in the employment. We …

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Income Distribution and the Optimal Provision of Local Public Goods

Aronsson, Thomas; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999

This paper analyzes how the distribution of gross income among residents in a locality affects the local provision of public goods. The analysis is based on a two-type model, where the local residents can be either high income earners or low income earners. Local provision is assumed to reflect...

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Environmental Policy Reforms and the Labor Market in a Global Economy

Aronsson, Thomas; Jonsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

In this paper, we consider the welfare effects of environmental policy cooperation in a two-country economy. We assume … the countries involved agree to slightly increase their expenditures on abatement. We show how the welfare effect of the … policy reform depends on changes in environmental damage, employment and work hours. We also relate the welfare effects of …

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