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This paper re-examines the optimal tax design problem (income and commodities) in the presence of externalities. The nature of the second-best, and the choice of the tax instruments, are motivated by the informational structure in the economy. The main results are: (i) environmental levies...
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This paper studies environmental taxation in a Mirrlees setting with two novel features. First, energy, a polluting good, is used both as a factor of production and a final consumption good; second, the wage is determined endogenously while labor of different individual types remain homogeneous....
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We estimate Translog and Fourier forms for three sectors of the French economy. The hypothesis that the former can be reduced to the latter is highly rejected. We show that the hypothesis of an endogenous technical change drops the autocorrelation of the disturbances in the Fourier case only....
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This paper calibrates the graduated income tax system currently in place in France while assuming that the number of earning-ability types in the economy is four. It also computes the optimal linear and nonlinear income tax schedules for this economy. Its main finding is that while an optimal...
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[fre] L'objectif de cet article est de faire le point sur la littérature économique concernant la taxation des biens polluants, en particulier sur le niveau optimal de ces taxes. Nous commençons par rappeler les fondements théoriques et les principaux enseignements des modèles traditionnels...
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[fre] Mécanismes de filières et macroéconomie. Un exemple de modélisation intégrée appliquée à l'électronucléaire français. . Cet article présente le modèle Micro-Mélodie, modèle macro-économique de long terme de l'économie française qui a pour originalité de décrire très...
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[fre] Nous étudions l'application empirique du modèle de taxation des biens polluants de Cremer et al. [1998] au cas de la taxation de l'énergie en France. Dans un premier temps, nous estimons les différentes composantes du modèle (utilités, productivités, etc.) par un calibrage sur des...
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