inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

representative. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewness of the distribution) yields a lower …

in time. In politico-economic equilibrium, more inequality (in terms of the skewedness of the distribution) yields a …

redistribution to finance abatement. By comparing the optimal taxation under alternative political regimes we analyze their … implications for environment, efficiency and growth. We find that left regimes, choosing more progressive redistribution, maintain … better environmental quality, which supports empirical research. Inequality does not appear to be harmful for the environment …

for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities … earnings of the top 10% are unfair, but that public support for redistribution remains largely unaffected. A notable exception … are top earners, who decrease their support for redistribution, and young people, who increase their support for …

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …

metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social … cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of inequality - heterogeneity in income below the national level. We … inequality between and within countries. In particular, we demonstrate that climate and distributional policy cannot be separated …