A general equilibrium framework is developed for analyzing the role of immobile factors of production which produce inputs for other sectors.

This paper reports on a sixteen-sector five asset general equilibrium tax model of the UK economy benchmarked to the 1995 data set received from the Inland Revenue. We use this model to access the impacts o capital income taxes, labour income taxes, indirect taxes, and tariffs.

Market exchange is subject to an endogenously-determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge, autarky (with no predation and no...

Distributions of many variables of interest in developed economic and financial markets, including income and wealth, exhibit heavy tails as in the case of Pareto or power laws. Many commonly used income and wealth inequality measures are very sensitive to extremes and outliers generated by...