Using the self-selection approach to tax analysis, the paper analyzes the impacts of environmental externalities on … Pareto-efficient non-linear income tax, proportional commodity taxes and public expenditure. Consideration of externalities … within this framework reveals intuitive insights into environmental tax policy, suggesting that some earlier conclusions …

We examine empirically the relationship between the extent of redistribution and the components of the Mirrlees … incomes. Our redistributive preference measure is constructed using the optimal tax formula for which we have collected data … because pre-specified functional forms are not easy to justify in empirical investigations of the optimal tax framework. We …

How does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when … of opportunity? This paper develops a framework in which the tax and provision rules in the two settings can be easily …