unearned income. We use lottery winnings to obtain variation in unearned income and tax reforms to obtain variation in the net … Norwegian income tax schedule, we are able to point identify uncompensated and compensated behavioral responses to income taxes … and therefore to calculate efficiency losses and optimal income tax rates (for given welfare weights). …

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both theintensive and extensive margins …. Employing a tax perturbation approach, we derive an optimal tax formula thatgeneralizes previous results by allowing for income …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium effects of … exhibits an optimal aggregate saving rate that is independent of income risk, whereas the optimal time-invariant tax on capital … implementing this saving rate is increasing in income risk. The optimal saving rate is constant along the transition and its sign …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of … optimal aggregate saving rate is independent of income risk. The optimal time-invariant tax on capital is increasing in income … that the optimal steady state saving rate is increasing in income risk if and only if the intertemporal elasticity of …

facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium effects of … aggregate saving rate that is independent of income risk, whereas the optimal time-invariant tax on capital implementing this … saving rate is increasing in income risk. The optimal saving rate is constant along the transition and its sign depends on …

. The main reason for this is the inequity created by income splitting in the presence of a high degree of inequality in the …