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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012481

Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation

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

Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, where people care about their relative consumption, and where the...

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Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490333

Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771203

Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This paper concerns optimal income taxation and provision of a state-variable public good under asymmetric information in a two-type overlapping generations model, where people care about their relative consumption. Each individual may compare his/her own current consumption with his/her own...

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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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Positional Concerns with Multiple Reference Points: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005197993

When the Joneses’ Consumption Hurts: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision in an OLG Model

Aronsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper considers a two-type, self-selection, overlapping generations model with nonlinear labor income and capital income taxation and public good provision, when people care about their relative consumption compared to others. In each case, the standard optimality expressions are modified...

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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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