A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusingparticularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equalmarginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexistingdistortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

By inverting Saez (2002)’s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize theredistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal)social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time andshow great stability despite...

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both theintensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions:specifically, their skill and disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and workeffort can differ with...

We build a theoretical model to study whether a minimum wage can be welfare-improving if itis implemented in conjunction with an optimized nonlinear income tax. We consider this issuein a framework where search frictions on the labor market generate unemployment. Workersdiffer in productivity...

Wir untersuchen eine Gewinnsteuer in einer unsicheren Welt. Unser Steuersystem erlaubt einen zeitlich veränderlichen Steuersatz, aus diesem Grund wurde auch eine verallgemeinerte Zinskorrektur (ACE) eingeführt. Die Zinskorrektur ist insofern verallgemeinert, da sie einen Anteil des Produktes...

In a recent paper Loeffler/Schneider (2000) showed that introducing a tax on a financial market does not create an arbitrage opportunity...

Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively littleattention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its maincharacteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budgetsets are convex and...

The paper shows how commodity taxes can provide insurance to consumers when the producer price is volatile. Specific and ad valorem taxes have differing roles. The optimal specific tax is positive when demand has some elasticity. The optimal ad valorem rate is zero when demand is unit-elastic,...

Probably the most enduring result in the theory of optimum income taxation is that,for a sufficiently thin upper tail to the skill distribution, the marginal tax rate shouldfall rather than rise with income. This paper shows that this result is highly sensitiveto a very strong informational...

This paper develops a formula for the optimal nonlinear income tax, the terms of which are familiar from the theory of linear income taxation. The development uses the idea of a perturbation of the optimal schedule and is based upon as assumption of differentiability. It is also shown that the...