-best instruments, a higher level of income redistribution calls for a lower level of Pigouvian taxation. More redistributionimplies … dollar is higher. The paper also shows that the relation between levels of redistribution and Pigouvian taxation is reversed …

The Ramsey optimal taxation theory implies that the tax rate on capital income should be zero in the long run. This … reforms are modest. -- optimal taxation ; inequality ; redistribution …

This paper analyzes the role of production distortion for income redistribution in an international trade model. In … redistribution. It first shows that production inefficiency can be a part of a Pareto-efficient tax system when there is an …

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 …

, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we … conservation as well as income redistribution …