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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412846
conventional wisdom, rather than calling for more redistribution, the presence of this scale dependence provides a rationale for …. At an aggregate level, a rise in redistribution induces a compression effect on the distribution of pre-tax returns. In … the financial market, I identify general equilibrium trickle-up externalities that provide a force for more redistribution …
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This paper studies the problem of redistribution between individuals having different mortality rates. We use a …
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We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … desirability of redistribution through wage compression. …
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We assess the usefulness of stochastic redistribution among a continuum of risk-averse agents with quasilinear … circumstances where stochastic redistribution is socially dominated by the deterministic policy where after-tax income lotteries are …
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