that the optimal progressivity increases unambiguously with growing income inequality. This conclusion holds up under … different assumptions about the efficiency cost of taxation and society`s aversion to inequality …

inequality, the paper develops implications of optimal income taxation derived using double limit analysis for transfers and … inequality. The losses arising from transfers in the leaky bucket experiment associated with Atkinson's measure are explained … welfare and inequality generated by different tax systems from different values of Atkinson's e, maximization of social …

deserve tax breaks. We demonstrate that the German tax-transfer system conflicts with a welfarist inequality averse social … planner. It is consistent with a planner who is averse to both inequality and high tax liabilities. The tax-transfer schedule … European countries and the USA and show that their redistributive systems can be rationalized with an inequality averse social …