Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J. G. van - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 1, pp. 1-32
risky investments through equity rather than debt and supply income insurance. The government, however, can circumvent this … problem and implement equity and insurance contracts through the tax system by using a graduate tax. This paper shows that … public equity financing of education coupled to provision of some income insurance is the optimal way to finance education …