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Philanthropy, multiple equilibria and optimal public policy
Dhami, Sanjit S.; Al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545820
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Responsibility and redistribution : the case of first best taxation
Tungodden, Bertil - 2001
It is not straightforward to define the ethics of responsibility in cases where the consequences of changes in factors within our control are partly determined by factors beyond our control. In this paper, we suggest that one plausible view is to keep us responsible for the parts of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399693
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Paramilitaries and electoral support
Tribín Uribe, Ana María - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 21 (2015) 2, pp. 191-216
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513503
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The size and shape of government : preferences over redistributive tax policy
Barnes, Lucy - In: Socio-economic review 13 (2015) 1, pp. 55-78
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519914
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Tax shifts
Mathé, Milena; Nicodème, Gaëtan; Ruà, Savino - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432425
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Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
Kanbur, Ravi; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tuomala, Matti; Ylinen, … - 2015
The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280723
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
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/10011280819
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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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Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2015
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289068
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The redistribution of trade gains when income inequality matters
De Pinto, Marco - In: Economies : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 186-215
How does a redistribution of trade gains affect welfare when income inequality matters? To answer this question, we … extend the [1] model to unionized labor markets and heterogeneous workers. As redistribution schemes, we consider … redistribution scheme is to finance unemployment benefits by a wage tax. …
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