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Wealthier households obtain higher returns on their investments than poorer ones. How should the tax system account for this return inequality? I study capital taxation in an economy in which return rates endogenously correlate with wealth. The leading example is a financial market, where the...
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We investigate the role of economic transparency within the framework of one of Townsend's models of "forecasting the forecasts of others". The equilibrium has the property that "higher order beliefs"; are coordinated into a finite-dimensional setup that is amenable to address monetary policy...
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We show how macroeconomic dynamics can be derived from asymmetric information. As an illustration of the utility of this approach we derive the equilibrium density, non-equilibrium densities and the equation of motion for the response to a demand shock for productivity in a simple economy. Novel...
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Vickrey's fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives, which he applied to the areas of taxation, auction … theory, and pricing. His work focused on the economics of asymmetric and private information. Critics of Vickrey's full …
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with the idea of financial crises in its models. In the stylized world of macroeconomic theory, crises are not an inherent …
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