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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy
Kaplow, Louis - 2020
Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174286
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Measuring the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution in the UK
Adam, Stuart - 2005
This paper estimates the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) associated with a demogrant and an in … the demogrant. The efficiency loss associated with a marginal in-work benefit has consistently been low (and occasionally … redistribution within family types. The inwork benefit policy looks even more favourable if paid to (and financed by) only singles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292956
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Optimal Taxation and the Tradeoff Between Efficiency and Redistribution
Economides, George - 2019
widespread belief that the introduction of consumption taxes into a model with income taxes only, creates substantial efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871622
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Taxes Versus Legal Rules as Instruments for Equity : A More Equitable View
Sanchirico, Chris William - 2000
Most formal law and economic analysis evaluates legal rules solely on the basis of "efficiency." The prevailing … goals. The optimal redistributional program will involve a mixture of methods and deviations from efficiency in one domain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074307
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Measuring the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution in the UK
Adam, Stuart - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005
This paper estimates the marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) associated with a demogrant and an in … the demogrant. The efficiency loss associated with a marginal in-work benefit has consistently been low (and occasionally … redistribution within family types. The inwork benefit policy looks even more favourable if paid to (and financed by) only singles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005547914
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Targeting taxes on local externalities
Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - 2023
condition holds, one can separate the equity/efficiency and environmental components of this tax. An illustration suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480706
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Targeting taxes on local externalities
Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - 2023
condition holds, one can separate the equity/efficiency and environmental components of this tax. An illustration suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014381438
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Many-Person Ramsey Rule and Nonlinear Income Taxation
Gauthier, Stéphane; Henriet, Fanny - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2015
groups. Redistribution from indirect taxes favors households living in rural Quebec …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268211
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280819
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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283108