We characterize the optimal linear tax on capital in an Overlapping Generations model with two period lived households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of private precautionary saving. For logarithmic utility...

We characterize the optimal linear tax on capital in an Overlapping Generations model with two period lived households facing uninsurable idiosyncratic labor income risk. The Ramsey government internalizes the general equilibrium feedback of private precautionary saving. For logarithmic utility...

Habits are an important cause of sluggish consumption adjustment in response to price shocks. This paper studies shifts within the consumption bundle under endogenous habit formation. I put forward a model with good-specific, or "deep", habits that cause persistence in good-specific consumption....

Die Vertreter eines konstitutionellen Steuerreformansatzes lehnen die Reformempfehlungen der Theorie der optimalen Besteuerung (OT) mit dem Hinweis auf die mangelhafte Berücksichtigung politisch-ökonomischer Zusammenhänge ab. Sie befürchten, dass die Effizienzregeln der OT in der Hand eines...