This paper presents two arguments in favor of the sole use of an income tax for redistribution purposes. The first is that most findings on nonlinear commodity taxation such as Mirrlees’s formulae for Pareto efficiency, Seade’s results on zero tax rates at the endpoints of the scale, and the Corlett-Hague tax rule only become valid under the second-order approach for the unrealistic class of utility functions that are affine with respect to ability. The second is that, for the Atkinson and Stiglitz theorem to hold, it suffices with assuming that preferences must be weakly separable in consumption and ability, a result that also remains valid with linear commodity taxation. All this relegates the use of nonlinear commodity taxes to the...
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods an...
ton and, particularly, Alain Jousten and the two referees for their comments. This paper studies the...
The traditional concept of a strict minimum of necessary consumption and nontaxable income equal for...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem states that if labor is weakly separable from goods in household utili...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commod-ity ...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commod- ity...
We show that the celebrated Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) result on the uniformity of the commodity t...
Accounting for the role of financial system and money holdings in an optimal nonlinear income tax mo...
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some g...
We consider the interplay between income distribution and optimal commodity taxation, linking equity...
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some g...
This paper aim is to study the Pareto efficient income taxation schedules in Mirrlees’ optimal tax m...
This paper shows that there is a presumption that Pareto-efficient taxation entails a positive tax o...
This paper considers the arguments regarding the choice between an ideal income tax and an ideal con...
This paper provides general and empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal...
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods an...
ton and, particularly, Alain Jousten and the two referees for their comments. This paper studies the...
The traditional concept of a strict minimum of necessary consumption and nontaxable income equal for...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem states that if labor is weakly separable from goods in household utili...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commod-ity ...
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem shows that with weakly separable preferences, differential commod- ity...
We show that the celebrated Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) result on the uniformity of the commodity t...
Accounting for the role of financial system and money holdings in an optimal nonlinear income tax mo...
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some g...
We consider the interplay between income distribution and optimal commodity taxation, linking equity...
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some g...
This paper aim is to study the Pareto efficient income taxation schedules in Mirrlees’ optimal tax m...
This paper shows that there is a presumption that Pareto-efficient taxation entails a positive tax o...
This paper considers the arguments regarding the choice between an ideal income tax and an ideal con...
This paper provides general and empirically implementable sufficient statistics formulas for optimal...
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods an...
ton and, particularly, Alain Jousten and the two referees for their comments. This paper studies the...
The traditional concept of a strict minimum of necessary consumption and nontaxable income equal for...