A New Approach toOptimal Commodity Taxation

This paper makes a fresh attempt at characterizing optimal commoditytaxes. Under the usual assumptions, an extremely simple expressionof second-best commodity taxes is derived, showing tax rates as functions ofobservable variables only, rather than as functions of unobservable variablessuch as compensated cross elasticities.[...]

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Year of publication:	2004-06-01
Authors:	Homburg, Stefan
Institutions:	Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Subject:	Besteuerung \| optimal taxation \| Ramsey-Theorie \| Zweitbeste Lösung \| second best

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1. INTRODUCTION
2. CHARACTERIZING OPTIMAL QUANTITIES
3. CHARACTERIZING OPTIMAL TAXES
4. A COMPLEMENTARITY RULE FOR ARBITRARILY MANY COMMODITIES
5. EXAMPLES
6. THE NORMALIZATION PROBLEM
7. A BLUEPRINT FOR CLASSROOM PRESENTATION
8. CONCLUSION
APPENDIX

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