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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities and a social welfare function. This article advances an approach … distribution-neutral methodology and welfare analysis developed in Kaplow (2008a) and related work, offering applications to income … security and retirement savings, estate and gift taxation, and transfer programs. It also explores welfare criteria and …
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Chapter 10 Taxation
Kaplow, Louis - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 1, (pp. 647-755). 2007
This Handbook entry presents a conceptual, normative overview of the subject of taxation. It emphasizes the relationships among the main functions of taxation—notably, raising revenue, redistributing income, and correcting externalities—and the mapping between these functions and various...
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Chapter 24 Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier; Fleurbaey, Marc - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 1465-1503). 2006
theories, such as inequality-averse social welfare functions or fairness criteria. It is shown how both approaches can be … of the Welfare State. However, while these theories may be suited for explaining the development of public insurance or … incorporation of individuals' altruistic feelings in social welfare functions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023654
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Voluntary Contributions and Collective Redistribution
Baranski, Andrzej - 2016
I study a multilateral bargaining game where committee members invest in a common project prior to redistributing the total value of production. The game corresponds to a Baron and Ferejohn (1989) legislative bargaining model preceded by a production stage similar to the voluntary contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014141361
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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth
Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006
This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory...
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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...
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Income Taxation and Optimal Government Policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2005
Various economic literatures address the question whether first-best prescriptions for government policy require modification because redistributive income taxation distorts labor supply and cannot achieve the distributive ideal. Perhaps second-best rules for public goods provision, corrective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061860
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Climate inequality : carbon capture for redistribution
Belfiori, Elisa; Macera, Manuel - 2024
We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and climate vulnerability. Carbon emissions from production lead to output losses, and there is a technology for emissions absorption. We provide an aggregation result: the model with heterogeneity can be cast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632377
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Self-serving bias in redistribution choices : accounting for beliefs and norms
Amasino, Dianna; Pace, Davide Domenico; Weele, Joël J. … - 2023
underlying inequality, differing fairness views, and differing perceptions of social norms. In this study, we directly measure … report different fairness views and beliefs about task performance, but not different beliefs about social norms. Further …, only fairness views play a significant mediating role between status and allocation differences, suggesting this is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477403
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Fairness and the unselfish demand for redistribution by taxpayers and welfare recipients
Sabatini, Fabio; Ventura, Marco; Yamamura, Eiji; … - 2017
We illustrate how the desire to live in a fair society that rewards individual effort and hard work triggers an unselfish though rational demand for redistribution. This leads the well off to prefer higher taxes and the poor to reject extreme progressivity. We then provide evidence of these...
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