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Inequality, life expectancy, and the intragenerational redistribution puzzle : some experimental evidence
Krieger, Tim; Meemann, Christine; Traub, Stefan - 2022
In most OECD countries, pension reform policy has decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution over the last … three decades, that is, redistribution among members of the same generation with high and low pension entitlements. This … relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …
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Private Road Networks with Uncertain Demand
Fu, Xinying - 2017
We study the efficiency of private supply of roads under demand uncertainty and evaluate various regulatory policies. Due to demand uncertainty, capacity is decided before demand is known, but tolls can be adjusted after demand is known. Policy implications can differ considerably from those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962709
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Private Road Networks with Uncertain Demand
Fu, Xinying - 2017
We study the efficiency of private supply of roads under demand uncertainty and evaluate various regulatory policies. Due to demand uncertainty, capacity is decided before demand is known but tolls can be adjusted after demand is known. Policy implications can differ from those under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971293
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016371
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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020515
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Optimal Redistributive Policy Under Disaster Risk : Self-Protection and Social Mitigation
Tsugawa, Shuichi - 2021
This paper examines the optimal mixed taxation of polluting goods and subsidies for self-protection under nonlinear income tax. The novel contribution of this paper is to take disaster risk into account, the probability which is determined by the total amount of polluting goods consumed by all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322085
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The impact of recent economic crises on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece
Petrakos, George; Rontos, Kōnstantinos; Vavoura, Chara; … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 6, pp. 1-23
We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great recession of 2007-2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also investigate the key macroeconomic variables affecting the Greek...
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The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality under economic uncertainty
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, … - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206181
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082790