political acceptability of the optimal tax theory. Two surveys have been conducted in 2016 to quantify French preferences for … income redistribution. In the first survey, respondents picked their preferred values for parameters which were used to … alternative specifications. Interestingly, the average desired redistribution corresponds closely to the shape of the optimal …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

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

capital and home ownership, and investigate the consequences of a rising wealth inequality at steady state on these tax rates … wealth tax on the wealth-rich households and a housing subsidy on the wealth-poor households. When wealth inequality …: housing wealth, wealth inequality, optimal taxation …

This paper develops a mechanism design approach to study externalities and re-distribution. The mechanism screens …

We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only … desirability of redistribution through wage compression. …