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The optimal income tax : restatement and extensions

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

The paper presents an axiomatic restatement of the standard approach to nonlinear income taxation. It assumes a finite number of taxpayers rather than an uncountable infinity. Analytical tools are developed which facilitate proving the existence of tax schedules that are continuous,...

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Optimal marginal tax rates for low incomes : positive, negative, or zero?

Homburg, Stefan - 2002

Previous studies have shown that the optimal marginal tax rate at the bottom of the income distribution may be positive, negative, or even zero. This paper reexamines this problem in a unified framework and tries to evaluate the arguments. It turns out that the case for positive marginal tax...

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Combining optimal tax evasion with the policy objectives of equity/efficiency

Dalamagas, Basil A.; Leventides, John; Tantos, Stefanos - In: Public finance and management : PFM : an official … 19 (2019) 1, pp. 66-104

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Ordinally Bayesian Incentive Compatible Stable Matchings

Majumdar, Dipjyoti - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2003

We study incentive issues related to two-sided one-to-one stable matching problem after weakening the notion of strategy-proofness to Ordinal Bayesian Incentive Compatibility (OBIC). Under OBIC, truthtelling is required to maximize the expected utility of every agent, expected utility being...

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The Linking of Collective Decisions and Efficiency

Jackson, Matthew O.; Sonnenschein, Hugo F. - EconWPA - 2003

For groups that must make several decisions of similar form, we define a simple and general mechanism that is designed to promote social efficiency. The mechanism links the various decisions by forcing agents to budget their representations of preferences so that the frequency of preferences...

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On the robustness of social norm elicitation

König-Kersting, Christian - 2021

order beliefs without monetary incentives results in qualitatively identical responses. In addition, we observe that … participants give sensible responses whether or not they understand the task or their monetary incentives. Overall, Krupka and …

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The attention-information tradeoff

Serra-Garcia, Marta - 2025 - This version: March 2025

experiment that varies freelance professionals’ incentives to attract attention about scientific findings, with several online … experiments that exogenously expose receivers to the content created. Attention incentives lead to significantly less information … being transmitted, but not more factually inaccurate content. These incentives increase information demand and the knowledge …

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Incentives, inequality and taxation : the Meade Committee report on The Structure and Reform of Direct Taxation (1978)

Chick, Martin - In: Business history 61 (2019) 7, pp. 1222-1235

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Can there be too much privatization? : the role of political incentives

Fuchs, Kira; Übelmesser, Silke - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 4, pp. 722-746

Generally, privatization of state-owned enterprises is believed to enhance economic efficiency and competitiveness and to improve the overall economic performance of a country. So, can there be too much privatization? We show that this depends on the political objectives that are pursued with a...

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The political economy of electoral reforms

Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2016

reforms used as natural experiments that induce exogenous variation on the institutional context and incentives coming …

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