The paper studies optimal redistributive taxation when the government cannot commit the future policy. The framework used is one in which individuals can revise their consumption-savings decisions slightly more often than the government can change tax policy.

The paper gives a systematic treatment of equivalent tax systems within an intertemporal framework.

We endogenise the objective of a monopoly firm in a general equilibrium context. Within this framework a distributional conflict occurs between shareholders, depending on their endowments. Following a political-economy approach and using voting theory, the production plan of the firm is...

The paper explores the hypothesis of a double divident from environmental taxation. It is argued that an environmental tax reform, i.e. shifting the burden of taxation away from labour toward the environment can improve environmental quality, boost employment and increase welfare. The paper...

Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low income inequality (such as the nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...

We introduce 'formal methods' of mechanized reasoning from computer science to address two problems in auction design and practice: is a given auction design soundly specified, possessing its intended properties; and, is the design faithfully implemented when actually run? Failure on either...

NREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) is the Indian government's flagship anti-poverty program and is one of the largest public works programmes in the world which aims to increase employment opportunities for the poor and in particular, improve women's access to the...

This paper uses the staggered implementation of a legal change in inheritance law in India to estimate the effect of women's improved access to inheritance on both police-reported and self-reported violence against women. I find a decrease in reported violence and female unnatural deaths...