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Pigou meets Ramsey : gender-based taxation with non-cooperative couples
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a noncooperative model of household behavior …-cooperative household equilibrium. We find that the first-best Pigou tax rules are solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of … substitution between the public household good and private consumption. Breaking down this eneral rule into the primitives of the …
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Special-interest lobbying and endogenous commodity taxation
Dixit, Avinash K. - In: Eastern economic journal 22 (1996) 4, pp. 375-388
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Marriage, housework and fairness
Widmalm, Frida - 1998
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Marriage, housework and fairness
Widmalm, Frida - 1998
models of household time allocation. Both in the model with agreeing spouses and the model with noncooperative spouses, such …
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Optimal income taxation with tax competition
Lipatov, Vilen; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2010
We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition reduces the distortion from the informational asymmetry...
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Questionable luxury taxes : results from a mating game
Thomas, Tobias - 2008
This contribution provides a game theoretical derivation of market demand as a function of the level and distribution of income in the considered economy: if (i) the price is low, everyone buys the good; if (ii ) the price is high, only the rich buy the good (a status good in a narrow sense). If...
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Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking
Mackenzie, Ian A. - 2009
Contests are a common method to describe the distribution of many different types of rents. Yet in many of these situations the utilisation of the prize plays an important role in determining agents payoffs and incentives. In this paper, we investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008735783
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Compensating justice beats leaky buckets: an experimental investigation
Camacho Cuena, Eva; Neugebauer, Tibor; Seidl, Christian - 2005
Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as income transfers allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum "leakage" of transaction costs before income inequality is exacerbated, or before a welfare loss is experienced. This notion...
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Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking
MacKenzie, Ian A. - 2009
Contests are a common method to describe the distribution of many different types of rents. Yet in many of these situations the utilisation of the prize plays an important role in determining agents payoffs and incentives. In this paper, we investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753175
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Special-interest lobbying and endogenous commodity taxation
Dixit, Avinash K. - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000929134