selfʺ emerges when labor supply and savings decisions are made. The social welfare function is paternalistic: the rate of … show that the paternalistic solution does not necessarily imply forced savings for the myopics. This is because … of myopic individuals increases, there is less redistribution and more forced saving. Furthermore, as the number of …

capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …

aggregate economic activity. The goal of this paper is to study the effects of wealth redistribution from rich to poor … extended to allow for nominal rigidities and parametrized to match the U.S. wealth distribution, wealth redistribution does …