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Redistributive income taxation with directed technical change

Loebbing, Jonas - 2020

This paper studies the implications of (endogenously) directed technical change for the design of non-linear labor income taxes in a Mirrleesian economy augmented to include endogenous technology development and adoption choices by firms. First, I identify conditions under which any progressive...

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Optimal taxation under different concepts of justness

Jessen, Robin; Metzing, Maria; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2018

A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare … for the working poor in practice. We extend the optimal taxation framework by Saez (2002) to allow for alternatives to …

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Optimal Tax-Transfer Policies, Life-Cycle Labour Supply and Present-Biased Preferences

Gunnersen, Lasse Frisgaard; Rasmussen, Bo Sandemann - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2012

redistribution from high to low ability households and correction of undersaving due to present-biasedness. Policies must comply with … incentive-compatibility constraints that restricts both how much income redistribution that can take place and how much savings …

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Commodity taxation and social welfare: the generalised Ramsey rule

Coady, David; Dreze, Jean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …, which leads to the 'generalised Ramsey rule' for optimum taxation. We show how many standard results on optimum taxation and …

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The economics of taxing net wealth: A survey of the issues

Schnellenbach, Jan - Walter Eucken Institut - 2012

wealth taxation in OECD countries, we discuss both popular arguments for such a tax, as well as economic arguments. It is … argued that classical normative principles of taxation known from public economics cannot give a sound justification for a …

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Redistribution, Taxes and the Median Voter

Bassetto, Marco; Benhabib, Jess - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 9 (2006) 2, pp. 211-223

We study a simple model of production, accumulation, and redistribution, where agents are heterogeneous in their …

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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted at Income Redistribution?

Jacobs, Bas - 2017

This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …

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Should Pollution Taxes Be Targeted at Income Redistribution?

Jacobs, Bas - 2017

This paper analyses optimal corrective taxation and optimal income redistribution. Under general utility functions, the …

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Charity As Income Redistribution : A Model With Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma

Aronsson, Thomas - 2019

rich to the poor in a model of optimal nonlinear income taxation. Our framework integrates public and private … redistribution, the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and status concerns emanating from social …

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Ideology, Tactics, and Efficiency in Redistributive Politics

Dixit, Avinash; Londregan, John - 2010

We model the electoral politics of redistribution. Taxation has efficiency and equity effects. Citizens and parties …

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